Predictors of posttraumatic outcomes following the 1999 Taiwan earthquake

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-46

  Chang, Chia Ming ^a   Connor, Kathryn M ^b   Lai, Te Jen ^a   Lee, Li Ching ^c   Davidson, Jonathan R T ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Earthquake; Partial PTSD; Predictor; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN; WELLBEING;

COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 11844250000     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000149217.67211.ab     Document Type: Article

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