Mental health service use among Hurricane Katrina survivors in the eight months after the disaster

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1403-1411

  Wang, Philip S ^a   Gruber, Michael J ^b   Powers, Richard E ^c,d   Schoenbaum, Michael ^a   Speier, Anthony H ^e   Wells, Kenneth B ^f,g   Kessler, Ronald C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SURVIVOR; TELEPHONE;

EID: 36749014104     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2007.58.11.1403     Document Type: Article

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