More than 60 years later: The mediating role of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder for the association of forced displacement in World War II with somatization in old age

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 911-914

  Kuwert, Philipp ^a   Braehler, Elmar ^b   Freyberger, Harald J ^a   Glaesmer, Heide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly; Forced displacement; Geriatrics; Somatization; Trauma; World War II

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUNICH COMPOSITE INTERNATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOMATIZATION; WAR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 84867363431     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31826ba129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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