Diagnostic utility of the impact of event scale-revised in two samples of survivors of war

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Morina, Nexhmedin ^a   Ehring, Thomas ^b   Priebe, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFERENCE VALUE; REFUGEE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVOR; WAR; WESTERN EUROPE; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALKAN PENINSULA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFUGEES; ROC CURVE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896715832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083916     Document Type: Article

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