Prevalence of psychiatric disorder following the 1988 Yun Nan (China) earthquake - The first 5-month period

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 204-212

  Cao, Hua ^a,d   McFarlane, Alexander C ^b   Klimidis, Steven ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Action Disability Ethnic Communities   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese; Earthquake; Epidemiology; Psychiatric morbidity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESIDENTIAL CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0038167563     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0619-2     Document Type: Article

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