Legal events as predictors of posttraumatic stress in injured trauma survivors

Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-78

  Osenbach, Janyce E ^a   Stubbs, Jennifer ^a   Wang, Jin ^b   Russo, Joan ^c   Zatzick, Douglas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURY; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL PROCEDURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM;

COUNSELING; CRIME VICTIMS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LINEAR MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 66149102301     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2009.72.1.70     Document Type: Article

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