Post-traumatic stress disorder: Definition, prevalence, and risk factors

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Basic Science and Clinical Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-19

  Keane, Terence M ^a   Marx, Brian P ^a   Sloan, Denise M ^a  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic; epidemiology; meta analyses; refugees; risk factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052467773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-329-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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