Peritraumatic tonic immobility is associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms in undergraduate Brazilian students;A imobilidade tônica peritraumática está associada aos sintomas do transtorno de estresse pós-traumático em estudantes brasileiros de graduação

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-65

  Portugal, Liana Catarina L ^a   Pereira, Mirtes Garcia ^a   Alves, Rita de Cássia S ^a   Tavares, Gisella ^a   Lobo, Isabela ^a   Rocha Rego, Vanessa ^b   Marques Portella, Carla ^b   Mendlowicz, Mauro V ^a   Coutinho, Evandro S ^c   Fiszman, Adriana ^b   Volchan, Eliane ^b   Figueira, Ivan ^b   de Oliveira, Letícia ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; TONIC IMMOBILITY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

EID: 84858064460     PISSN: 15164446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-44462012000100011     Document Type: Article

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