Racial and ethnic differences in symptom severity of PTSD, GAD, and depression in trauma-exposed, urban, treatment-seeking adults

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-110

  Ghafoori, Bita ^a   Barragan, Belen ^a   Tohidian, Niloufar ^a   Palinkas, Lawrence ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CALIFORNIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84857317148     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21663     Document Type: Article

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