El Salvador earthquakes: Relationships among acute stress disorder symptoms, depression, traumatic event exposure, and resource loss

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 879-893

  Sattler, David N ^a   De Alvarado, Ana Maria Glower ^b   De Castro, Norma Blandon ^b   Van Male, Robert ^a   Zetino, A M ^b   Vega, Raphael ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of El Salvador   (El Salvador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ARTICLE; DISASTER; HOUSING; LIFE EVENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL DISASTERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE;

EID: 33847792125     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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