Trauma and current posttraumatic stress symptoms in elderly German women who experienced wartime rapes in 1945

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 450-451

  Kuwert, Philipp ^a   Klauer, Thomas ^a   Eichhorn, Svenja ^a   Grundke, Elena ^a   Dudeck, Manuela ^a   Schomerus, Georg ^a   Freyberger, Harald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

PTSD; Sexual violence; Trauma; Wartime rape; World War II

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAPE; RATING SCALE; SOLDIER; SURVIVAL; WAR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RAPE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VETERANS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 77953345374     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181e08685     Document Type: Article

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