PTSD and trauma in Austria's elderly: Influence of wartime experiences, postwar zone of occupation, and life time traumatization on today's mental health status-an interdisciplinary approach

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Glück, Tobias M ^a   Tran, Ulrich S ^a   Lueger Schuster, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Elderly; Epidemiology; General population; Subthreshold PTSD; World war 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971612570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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