Gender, social support, and posttraumatic stress in postwar Kosovo

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 762-770

  Ahern, Jennifer ^a   Galea, Sandra ^a,b   Fernandez, William G ^b,c   Koci, Bajram ^d   Waldman, Ronald ^b   Vlahov, David ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRI TINA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Gender; Kosovo; Posttraumatic stress; Social support; Trauma; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBANIA; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 8444241157     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000144695.02982.41     Document Type: Article

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