Six-year trajectories of post-traumatic stress and severe psychological distress symptoms and associations with timing of trauma exposure, ongoing adversity and sense of injustice: A Latent transition analysis of a community cohort in conflict-affected Timor-Leste

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Tay, A K ^a,b   Rees, S ^a,b   Steel, Z ^a   Tam, N ^a,b   Soares, Z ^c   Soares, C ^c   Silove, D M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Alola Foundation   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; INDONESIAN; INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; TIMOR-LESTE; TRAUMA EXPOSURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTOR; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TIMOR-LESTE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84960347484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010205     Document Type: Article

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