Surviving the Vajont Disaster: Psychiatric Consequences 36 Years Later

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-231

  Favaro, Angela ^a   Zaetta, Cristina ^a   Colombo, Giovanni ^a   Santonastaso, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Clinica Psichiatrica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Major depressive disorder; Post traumatic stress disorder; Technological disaster; Trauma; Trauma related fears

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DISASTER; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LIFESPAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 1542427190     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000117590.81374.7c     Document Type: Article

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