Financial and social circumstances and the incidence and course of PTSD in Mississippi during the first two years after Hurricane Katrina

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-368

  Galea, Sandro ^a,b,c   Tracy, Melissa ^a,c   Norris, Fran ^d,e,f   Coffey, Scott F ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research   (United States)

^d VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RESIDENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSISSIPPI; NATURAL DISASTERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVAL;

EID: 52249094861     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20355     Document Type: Article

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