Predictors of fatigue in rescue workers and residents in the aftermath of an aviation disaster: A longitudinal study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 605-612

  Spinhoven, Philip ^a   Verschuur, Margot ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disaster; Fatigue; Health anxiety; Psychopathology; Quality of life; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SELF REPORT; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DISASTERS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESCUE WORK; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 33748060211     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000222367.88642.de     Document Type: Article

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