Disability and posttraumatic stress disorder in disaster relief workers responding to September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 684-694

  Evans, Susan ^a   Patt, Ivy ^a   Giosan, Cezar ^a   Spielman, Lisa ^a   Difede, Jo Ann ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Disaster relief workers; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIEF WORK; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM; WORKER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERRORISM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIEF WORK; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 67649964178     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: 10974679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20575     Document Type: Article

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