Acute stress reactions among medical and non-medical personnel in a general hospital under missile attacks

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-128

  Koren, Danny ^a,b   Caspi, Yael ^b   Leiba, Ronit ^b   Bloch, Doron ^b   Vexler, Batia ^b   Klein, Ehud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Medical personnel; Primary traumatization; PTS; Secondary traumatization; Traumatic stress symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FIRE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RESCUE PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUMMER; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AROUSAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 63849284112     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20509     Document Type: Article

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