Intermittent Explosive Disorder amongst Women in Conflict Affected Timor-Leste: Associations with Human Rights Trauma, Ongoing Violence, Poverty, and Injustice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rees, Susan ^a   Silove, Derrick ^a   Verdial, Teresa ^b   Tam, Natalino ^a   Savio, Elisa ^b   Fonseca, Zulmira ^b   Thorpe, Rosamund ^c   Liddell, Belinda ^a   Zwi, Anthony ^a   Tay, Kuowei ^a   Brooks, Robert ^a   Steel, Zachary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Alola Foundation   (Timor-Leste)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILD REARING; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; TIMOR-LESTE; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISABLED PERSONS; EAST TIMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; URBAN HEALTH; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881328991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069207     Document Type: Article

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