Coping responses and posttraumatic stress symptomatology in urban fire service personnel

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 293-308

  Beaton, Randal ^a   Murphy, Shirley ^a   Johnson, Clark ^a   Pike, Ken ^a   Corneil, Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Duty related incident exposures; Emergency workers; Posttraumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; FIRES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESCUE WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033037196     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024776509667     Document Type: Article

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