The effect of prolonged exposure to war stress on the comorbidity of PTSD and depression among hospital personnel

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 262-264

  Palgi, Yuval ^a   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^b   Langer, Shai ^c   Essar, Nir ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Center of Epidemiologic Studies Depression; Comorbidity; Hospital personnel; Impact of Event Scale; Trauma; War stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JOB STRESS; LEBANON; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMBAT DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650477035     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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