Could alexithymia predict suicide attempts - A study of Croatian war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 420-423

  Kušević, Zorana ^a,b   Ćusa, Bjanka Vuksan ^b,c   Babić, Goran ^d   Marčinko, Darko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^c JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^d Private Psychiatric Practice for Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacotherapy   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Post traumatic stress disorder; PTSD; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROATIA; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; ICD-10; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; COMPLICATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; VETERAN;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CROATIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VETERANS;

EID: 84961338817     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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