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    The War Events Questionnaire (1999)
    Springer
    Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 34 (1999), S. 265-274 
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    ISSN: 1433-9285
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Background: The measurement of exposure to war in large epidemiological studies necessitates the use of easily administered and reliable questionnaires that cover a range of war events. The War Event Questionnaire (WEQ) was designed by our group to address these issues and has proved to be quite easy to administer. The aim of this study is to establish the inter-rater reliability of the WEQ. Method: Two trained interviewers alternated in administering parts I and II of the WEQ. Results: The Kappa statistics used to calculate the degree of agreement between the two raters ranged from 0.281 to 0.774 for part I events and from 0.189 to 1.000 for part II events. Conclusion: The WEQ has proved to be a useful instrument that addresses both objective and the subjective war experiences; it is a fairly reliable instrument and has helped us avoid tautological assessment of the mental health effects of war.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001270050143
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    Major depression and external stressors: the Lebanon Wars (1998)
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    European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 248 (1998), S. 225-230 
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    ISSN: 1433-8491
    Keywords: Key words Epidemiology ; Major depression ; War ; Stress ; Lebanon
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract This article examines the effect of war events and pre-war depression on the prevalence of major depression during war. A total of 658 subjects aged 18-65 years were randomly selected from four Lebanese communities differentially exposed to the Lebanon Wars and were interviewed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (Arabic version). The individual levels of exposure to war events were assessed through a War Events Questionnaire. The lifetime prevalence of the DSM-III-R-defined major depression varied across the four communities from 16.3 to 41.9%; the final parameters predicting major depression since the onset of the wars were: depression before the wars and exposure to the wars. Both, individual levels of exposure to war and a history of pre-war depression, predict the development of depression during war.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004060050042
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