Symptoms and coping in Sri Lanka 20-21 months after the 2004 tsunami

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-44

  Hollifield, Michael ^a   Hewage, Chandanie ^b   Gunawardena, Charlotte N ^c   Kodituwakku, Piyadasa ^d   Bopagoda, Kalum ^b   Weerarathnege, Krishantha ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPOSURE; FAMILY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RELIGION; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMI;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREVALENCE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SRI LANKA; SURVIVAL;

EID: 38749100657     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.038422     Document Type: Article

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