Children's well-being 11 years after the chornobyl catastrophe

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 563-571

  Bromet, Evelyn J ^a   Goldgaber, Dmitry ^a   Carlson, Gabrielle ^a   Panina, Natalia ^b   Golovakha, Evgenii ^b   Gluzman, Semyon F ^c   Gilbert, Thomas ^d   Gluzman, Daniil ^b   Lyubsky, Sergey ^a,e   Schwartz, Joseph E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c Ukrainian Psychiatric Association   (Ukraine)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOMATIZATION; WELLBEING;

EID: 0034075414     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.6.563     Document Type: Article

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