Social network disturbances and psychological distress following earthquake evacuation

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 188-1194

  Bland, Susan H ^a   O'Leary, Erin S ^a   Farinaro, Eduardo ^b   Jossa, Fabrizio ^b   Krogh, Vittorio ^a   Violanti, John M ^a   Trevlsan, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0343683289     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199703000-00008     Document Type: Article

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