Predictors of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after the AZF chemical factory explosion on 21 September 2001, in Toulouse, France

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 455-460

  Riviere S ^a   Schwoebel, V ^a   Lapierre Duval, K ^a   Guinard, A ^a   Gardette, V ^b   Lang, Th ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; EXPLOSION; HEALTH SURVEY; INJURY; MENTAL HEALTH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; URBAN HEALTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUTE GARONNE; MIDI-PYRENEES; TOULOUSE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ORA;

EID: 42549087313     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.057273     Document Type: Article

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