Prevalence and Course of Symptom-Defined PTSD in Individuals Directly or Indirectly Exposed to Terror: A Longitudinal Study

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 171-183

  Hansen, Marianne Bang ^a   Birkeland, Marianne Skogbrott ^a   Nissen, Alexander ^a   Blix, Ines ^a   Solberg, Øivind ^a   Heir, Trond ^a,b  

^a Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; NORWAY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST SPECIFIC; PREVALENCE; TERRORISM; DISEASE EXACERBATION; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TERRORISM;

EID: 85026778589     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00332747.2016.1230983     Document Type: Article

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