Comparing the COVID-19-related PTSD symptoms between psychiatric patients and healthy subjects: an observational retrospective study from Northern Italy.
COVID-19 pandemic had a great impact on mental health, both in the general population and psychiatric patients. Little is known about the difference between these two populations in perceiving the pandemic as a traumatic event. The aim of the study was to compare psychiatric patients and healthy con...
| Publicado en: | Psychology, Health & Medicine Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 1298 - 1309 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2023
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