The clinical picture of late-onset PTSD: A 20-year longitudinal study of Israeli war veterans

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 265-273

  Horesh, Danny ^a   Solomon, Zahava ^b   Keinan, Giora ^b   Ein Dor, Tsachi ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Military psychiatry; Psychopathology; PTSD

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; ISRAELI; LEBANON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; VETERAN; WAR;

MILITARY PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PTSD;

AGE OF ONSET; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 84880702188     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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