Factors impacting on psychological distress and recovery after the 2004 Niigata-Chuetsu earthquake, Japan: Community-based study

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 503-507

  Kuwabara, Hideki ^a   Shioiri, Toshiki ^b   Toyabe, Shin Ichi ^c   Kawamura, Tsuyoshi ^d   Koizumi, Masataka ^e   Ito Sawamura, Miki ^e,f   Akazawa, Kouhei ^c   Someya, Toshiyuki ^e  

^a Sagata Mental Hospital   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TakadaNishishiro Hospital   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Natural disaster; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychological distress; Psychological recovery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARTHQUAKES; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOUSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 53149143556     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01842.x     Document Type: Article

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