Gender differences and acute stress reactions among rescue personnel 36 to 48 hours after exposure to traumatic event

Traumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-142

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Essar, Nir ^b   Saar, Ronen ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Israel Defense Forces ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute stress reactions; Dissociative experience scale; Gender differences; Impact of event scale; Rescue personnel

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649856992     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765606294557     Document Type: Article

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