Daily versus monthly reporting of post-traumatic symptoms: A study of reliability across time and instruments

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 227, Issue 2-3, 2015, Pages 309-312

  Westermeyer, Joseph ^a,b   Shiroma, Paulo ^a,b   Thuras, Paul ^a,b   Kattar, Karen ^a   Johnson, David ^a,b   Crosby, Ross D ^c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d Neuropsychiatric Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Course; Life charting; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Practice effect; Reliability; Symptom recall

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PTSD LIFE CHART; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SYMPTOM; VETERAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929129568     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.03.017     Document Type: Article

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