Psychiatric morbidity following a natural disaster: An Australian bushfire

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 261-268

  McFarlane, A C ^a   Clayer, J R ^a   Bookless, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISASTER; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; TIME; VICTIM;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0030745518     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00789038     Document Type: Article

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