Symptom comparison across multiple solicitation methods among burundians with traumatic event histories

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-234

  Yeomans, Peter D ^a   Herbert, James D ^a   Forman, Evan M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BURUNDI; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOEDUCATION; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BURUNDI; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 43249097040     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20325     Document Type: Article

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