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Validation of a measure to assess Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: a Sinhalese version of Impact of Event Scale

BACKGROUND: There is paucity of measures to conduct epidemiological studies related to disasters in Sri Lanka. This study validates a Sinhalese translation of the Impact of Event Scale- 8 items version (IES-8) for use in Sri Lanka. METHODS: This cross-sectional validation study was conducted in the...

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Autores principales: John, Prashantham Baddam, Russell, Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1803770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17306023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-0179-3-4