Epidemiology of PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-74

  Blanco, Carlos ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress disorder (ASD) condition, after trauma exposure; Cross National European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD); Cross sectional study, community sample in Lebanon WHO CIDI version 3.0, ICD 10 and DSM IV diagnosis; Diagnostic criteria, and gateway criterion (Criterion A) certain traumas producing PTSD; DSM III diagnosis, presence of one symptom satisfying Criterion B; Psychiatric comorbidity strong associations, PTSD and comorbid psychiatric disorders; PTSD epidemiology; Sociodemographic risk factors; Trauma exposure and PTSD in general population; Trauma related disorders, recognition in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III (DSM III), 1980

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878818934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998471.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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