Working on the railroad: Reactions to traumatic and stressful events

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 141-144

  Meier, Valerie J ^a   Kennedy, Jim ^b   Hope, Debra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Burlington Northern Railroad ^*

Author keywords

Impact of Events Scale; PTSD; Railroad; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KANSAS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RAILROADS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 0031861740     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1998)7:3<141::AID-DA9>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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