The psychological impact of a catastrophic earthquake: A retrospective study 50 years after the event

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 340-344

  Lazaratou, Helen ^a   Paparrigopoulos, Thomas ^a,b   Galanos, Gerassimos ^a   Psarros, Constantinos ^a   Dikeos, Dimitris ^a   Soldatos, Constantin ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Natural disasters; Psychological reactions; PTSD symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DREAMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 42249094034     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31816a62c6     Document Type: Article

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