Neighborhood social cohesion and posttraumatic stress disorder in a community-based sample: Findings from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1899-1906

  Johns, Lauren E ^a   Aiello, Allison E ^a   Cheng, Caroline ^a   Galea, Sandro ^b   Koenen, Karestan C ^b   Uddin, Monica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighborhood; PTSD; Social cohesion; Social context; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872343001     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0506-9     Document Type: Article

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