How to quantify exposure to traumatic stress? Reliability and predictive validity of measures for cumulative trauma exposure in a post-conflict population

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wilker, Sarah ^a,b   Pfeiffer, Anett ^b,c   Kolassa, Stephan ^d   Koslowski, Daniela ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^b,c   Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Universität Konstanz und Vivo International EV   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d SAP Switzerland AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cumulative trauma exposure; Event list; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Predictive validity; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958962550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v6.28306     Document Type: Article

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