When combat prevents PTSD symptoms-results from a survey with former child soldiers in Northern Uganda

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Weierstall, Roland ^a   Schalinski, Inga ^a   Crombach, Anselm ^a   Hecker, Tobias ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPETITIVE AGGRESSION SCALE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; SOLDIER; UGANDA; AGGRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPOSURE; OFFENDER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK REDUCTION; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UGANDA; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 84860817757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-41     Document Type: Article

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