Trauma exposure, PTSD and psychotic-like symptoms in post-conflict Timor Leste: An epidemiological survey

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Soosay, Ian ^a   Silove, Derrick ^b   Bateman Steel, Catherine ^b   Steel, Zachary ^b   Bebbington, Paul ^c   Jones, Peter B ^d   Chey, Tien ^b   Ivancic, Lorraine ^b   Marnane, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARANOIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTIC LIKE SYMPTOM; RURAL AREA; SOCIETY; THOUGHT DISORDER; TIMOR LESTE; URBAN AREA; FEMALE; INJURY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIMOR-LESTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EAST TIMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 84871176009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-229     Document Type: Article

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