Past history of prolonged traumatization and present health-related quality-of-life: Holocaust survivors before and after open-heart surgery

Stress and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-72

  Soskolne, Varda ^a,b   Kozohovitch, Haim ^c   Deviri, Ehud ^d   Schreiber, Shaul ^e  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Bikur Holim Hospital ^*  (Israel)

^d BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elderly; Holocaust; Israel; Open heart surgery; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CARDIAC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; EDUCATION; EMOTION; ENERGY; EXPERIENCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 14544303134     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1040     Document Type: Article

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