Factors affecting nightmares in children: Parents' vs. children's ratings

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-25

  Schredl, Michael ^a   Fricke Oerkermann, Leonie ^b   Mitschke, Alexander ^c   Wiater, Alfred ^c   Lehmkuhl, Gerd ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Nightmares

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHTMARE; PARENT; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP; SLEEP WALKING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAKEFULNESS;

CHILD; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 58849162740     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-008-0697-5     Document Type: Article

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