Difficulty identifying feelings predicts the persistence of trauma symptoms in a sample of veterans who experienced military sexual trauma

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 252-255

  O'Brien, Carol ^a   Gaher, Raluca M ^b   Pope, Caryanne ^c   Smiley, Paul ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Military sexual trauma; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUALITY; VETERAN;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ATTITUDE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX OFFENSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 40949090191     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318166397d     Document Type: Article

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