Getting a peace of the action: Measures of post traumatic stress in UK military peacekeepers

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 78-84

  Greenberg, Neil ^a   Iversen, Amy ^a   Hull, Lisa ^a   Bland, Duncan ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 41849117337     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2007.070024     Document Type: Article

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