Predictors of posttraumatic stress in police and other first responders

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1071, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-18

  Marmar, Charles R ^a,b   McCaslin, Shannon E ^a,b   Metzler, Thomas J ^a,b   Best, Suzanne ^b   Weiss, Daniel S ^b   Fagan, Jeffery ^c   Liberman, Akiva ^d   Pole, Nnamdi ^e   Otte, Christian ^f   Yehuda, Rachel ^g   Mohr, David ^a,b   Neylan, Thomas ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

First responders; Peritraumatic; Police; PTSD; Risk

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33746446733     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1364.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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