Psychiatric distress among asian and European American survivors of the 1994 northridge earthquake

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 597-604

  Kulkarni, Madhur ^a   Pole, Nnamdi ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Brief symptom inventory; Minority mental health; Natural disasters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTER; SURVIVOR; AGED; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISASTER; ETHNOLOGY; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 56149090133     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181813290     Document Type: Article

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