Impaired psychological recovery in the elderly after the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake in Japan:a population-based study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Toyabe, Shin Ichi ^a   Shioiri, Toshiki ^b   Kuwabara, Hideki ^b   Endoh, Taroh ^b   Tanabe, Naohito ^b   Someya, Toshiyuki ^b   Akazawa, Kouhei ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPHORIA; EARTHQUAKE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL STATUS; AGE; DISASTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISASTERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33749514630     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-230     Document Type: Article

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