Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder is more prevalent than previously believed, and is often persistent. Progress in estimating age-at-onset distributions, cohort effects, and the conditional probabilities of PTSD from different types of trauma will require future epidemiologic studies to assess PTSD for all lifetime traumas rather than for only a small number of retrospectively reported "most serious" traumas.
Keywords
ComorbidityNational Comorbidity SurveyPsychiatryPosttraumatic stressEpidemiologyPopulationPsychologyClinical psychologyMedicineInternal medicine
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Ronald C. Kessler
(1995).
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey.
Archives of General Psychiatry
, 52
(12)
, 1048-1048.
https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1995.03950240066012
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- 10.1001/archpsyc.1995.03950240066012