Adverse reactions associated with studying persons recently exposed to mass urban disaster

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 515-524

  Boscarino, Joseph A ^a,b   Figley, Charles R ^c   Adams, Richard E ^a   Galea, Sandro ^a,d   Resnick, Heidi ^e   Fleischman, Alan R ^a   Bucuvalas, Michael ^f   Gold, Joel ^g  

^a NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f Schulman   (United States)

^g BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Community disaster; Iatrogenic; Patient safety; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Psychological trauma; PTSD; Surveillance; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISASTERS; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TERRORISM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 4143065927     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000135476.20580.ae     Document Type: Article

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