Somatic distress among Kosovar civilian war survivors: Relationship to trauma exposure and the mediating role of experiential avoidance

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1167-1177

  Morina, Nexhmedin ^c   Ford, Julian D ^a   Risch, Anne Katrin ^b   Morina, Besim ^c   Stangier, Ulrich ^d  

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

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c ZANA ^*

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Civilian war trauma; Depression; Experiential avoidance; PTSD; Somatic distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SURVIVOR; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AWARENESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 78449246411     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0160-z     Document Type: Article

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