Social Support and Depressive Symptoms among Displaced Older Adults Following the 1999 Taiwan Earthquake

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-67

  Watanabe, Chie ^a   Okumura, Junko ^a   Chiu, Tai Yuan ^b   Wakai, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Depression; Displaced people; Natural disaster; Older adults; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN;

AGED; DEPRESSION; DISPLACEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TAIWAN;

EID: 1442348332     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOTS.0000014678.79875.30     Document Type: Article

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