Mental health and resiliency following 44 months of terrorism: A survey of an Israeli national representative sample

BMC Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bleich, Avi ^a,b,c   Gelkopf, Marc ^a,b,c   Melamed, Yuval ^a,b   Solomon, Zahava ^b  

^a LEV HASHARON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Lev Hasharon Mental Health Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARAB; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; ISRAEL; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OPTIMISM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERRORISM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM;

EID: 33748587587     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-4-21     Document Type: Article

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