Usefulness of a DSM criteria-based inventory for screening for post-traumatic stress disorder

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 454-456

  Farina, Benedetto ^a,b   Venturi, Piero ^b   Onofri, Antonio ^c   Raja, Michele ^c   Di Giannantonio, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Research of Psychopathology of Attachment System   (Italy)

^c SPIRITO SANTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

disaster; post traumatic; screening; self report inventory; stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTER; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTERS; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 38449108928     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005203     Document Type: Article

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