MMPI-2 Patterns in Electrical Injury: A Controlled Investigation

@article{Wicklund2008MMPI2PI,
  title={MMPI-2 Patterns in Electrical Injury: A Controlled Investigation},
  author={Alissa Wicklund and Alia N Ammar and Julie C. Weitlauf and Robert L. Heilbronner and Joseph W. Fink and R. C. Lee and Kathleen M. Kelley and Neil H Pliskin},
  journal={The Clinical Neuropsychologist},
  year={2008},
  volume={22},
  pages={111 - 98}
}
The psychological consequences of electrical injury (EI) are many. Depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and somatic preoccupation are often concomitant with this type of injury (Kelley, Pliskin, Meyer, & Lee, 1994). The present study utilized the MMPI-2 as a tool for characterizing profiles of psychological distress in EI. We examined MMPI-2 profiles in 79 EI patients and their relationship to both injury parameters (i.e., time since injury, LOC, voltage), and extra-diagnostic… 
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