Posttraumatic stress disorder in disaster relief workers following direct and indirect trauma exposure to ground zero

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 553-557

  Zimering, Rose ^a,b   Gulliver, Suzy B ^a,b   Knight, Jeffrey ^a,b   Munroe, James ^a   Keane, Terence M ^a,b  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTER; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; TERRORISM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RELIEF WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM;

EID: 33947241411     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20143     Document Type: Article

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