Traumatic events and obsessive compulsive disorder in children and adolescents: Is there a link?

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 513-519

  Lafleur, Daniel L ^a,b   Petty, Carter ^c   Mancuso, Elizabeth ^c   McCarthy, Katherine ^c   Biederman, Joseph ^c,d   Faro, Alyssa ^c   Levy, Hannah C ^e   Geller, Daniel A ^c,d  

^a BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; OCD; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDREN YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRUSIVE FEAR; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 79953676847     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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