Comorbidity in posttraumatic stress disorder: a structural equation modelling approach

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 430-440

  Wittmann, Lutz ^a   Moergeli, Hanspeter ^a   Martin Soelch, Chantal ^a   Znoj, Hansjoerg ^b   Schnyder, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 48849104663     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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