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DSM-5 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Criteria in “Precious” (2009): Media Content Analysis for Educational Purposes

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  1. Fundação do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil

    Laura Dip Ramos, Fernanda Severo Guimarães & João Maurício Castaldelli-Maia

  2. University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

    Antonio Ventriglio

  3. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Arthur Guerra de Andrade & Francisco Lotufo-Neto

  4. Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

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Dr. Castaldelli-Maia receives Pfizer Independent Grant for Learning and Change (IGLC) managed by Global Bridges (Healthcare Alliance for Tobacco Dependence Treatment) hosted at Mayo Clinic, to support free smoking cessation treatment training in addiction/mental health care units in Brazil (grant IGLC 13513957), which had no relationship with the present study. Dr. Andrade is Executive President of the Center for Information on Health and Alcohol (CISA), which had no funding relationship with this project. All other authors have no conflicts of interest.

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Ramos, L.D., Guimarães, F.S., Ventriglio, A. et al. DSM-5 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Criteria in “Precious” (2009): Media Content Analysis for Educational Purposes. Acad Psychiatry 41, 396–404 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0682-8

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