Psychosocial care for women survivors of the tsunami disaster in India

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 654-658

  Becker, Susan M ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATURAL DISASTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SURVIVOR; TRAINING; TSUNAMI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; EDUCATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TIDAL WAVES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149172821     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.146571     Document Type: Article

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