HADStress screen for posttraumatic stress: Replication in Ethiopian refugees

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 762-767

  Gulden, Ashley ^a   Westermeyer, Joseph ^a,b   Lien, Rebecca ^c   Spring, Marline ^a   Johnson, David ^d   Butcher, James ^b   Jaranson, James ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Professional Data Analysts Inc   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF STATE   (United States)

Author keywords

posttraumatic stress; Refugee; screening; somatization; torture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; ETHIOPIA; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TORTURE; ADOLESCENT; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958194578     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181f49c0a     Document Type: Article

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