Frequency of PTSD in a group of search and rescue workers two months after 2003 Bingol (Turkey) earthquake

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 573-575

  Ozen, Sakir ^a,b   Sir, Aytekin ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake; PTSD; Rescue workers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SCORING SYSTEM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESCUE WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TURKEY;

EID: 4143079304     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000135573.47316.67     Document Type: Article

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