Impact of war stress on posttraumatic stress symptoms in hospital personnel

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-266

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Palgi, Yuval ^a   Essar, Nir ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital personnel; Impact of event scale; Trauma; War stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEBANON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK; WAR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 34247882748     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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