Post-traumatic stress reactions of children and adolescents exposed to the Athens 1999 earthquake

European Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 160-166

  Giannopoulou, Ioanna ^a   Strouthos, Marios ^b   Smith, Patrick ^c   Dikaiakou, Anastasia ^a   Galanopoulou, Vasiliki ^a   Yule, William ^c  

^a NHS Community Mental Health Centre of Peristeri   (Greece)

^b NHS Community Mental Health Centre of Halandri   (Greece)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anxiety; Children; Depression; Earthquake; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33646496379     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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