Post-traumatic symptoms among younger and elderly evacuees in the early stages following the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in Japan

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 477-481

  Kato, H ^a   Asukai, N ^b   Miyake, Y ^b   Minakawa, K ^b   Nishiyama, A ^b  

^a Disaster Victim Assistance Program   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Natural disaster; Post traumatic stress disorder; Victim psychology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029956291     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1996.tb10680.x     Document Type: Article

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