Family violence, war, and natural disasters: A study of the effect of extreme stress on children's mental health in Sri Lanka

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Catani, Claudia ^a,b   Jacob, Nadja ^a   Schauer, Elisabeth ^b   Kohila, Mahendran ^c   Neuner, Frank ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Vallikamam Educational Zonal Office ^*  (Italy)

^c Vallikamam Educational Zonal Office   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMI; WAR; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SRI LANKA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 44149089812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-33     Document Type: Article

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