Associations between dimensions of anxiety sensitivity and PTSD symptom clusters in active-duty police officers

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 66-75

  Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a   Stapleton, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Dimensionality; Panic; Police officers; Posttraumatic stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; POLICE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SASKATCHEWAN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 46049095482     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506070801969005     Document Type: Article

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