Anger and posttraumatic stress disorder in disaster relief workers exposed to the september 11, 2001 world trade center disaster: One-year follow-up study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 844-846

  Jayasinghe, Nimali ^a   Giosan, Cezar ^a   Evans, Susan ^a   Spielman, Lisa ^a   Difede, Joann ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Disaster workers; Longitudinal; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS DISASTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELIEF WORK; TERRORISM; VOLUNTARY WORKER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANGER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIEF WORK; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 58149158000     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31818b492c     Document Type: Article

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