Psychological assessment of chemical injured war veterans compared to non-chemical injured war veterans

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 189-194

  Mohaghegh Motlagh, Seyed Jafar ^a   Arab, Atieh ^b   Momtazi, Saeed ^b   Musavi Nasab, Seyed Nureddin ^b   Saburi, Amin ^c  

^a IRI Police Study and Research Organization   (Iran)

^b ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Chemical agent; Depression; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychological disorder; War injured veteran

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST MILITARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; VETERAN;

EID: 84865545846     PISSN: 17585864     EISSN: 17585872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-5872.2012.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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