Coping with displacement from Hurricane Katrina: Predictors of one-year post-traumatic stress and depression symptom trajectories

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-432

  Wadsworth, Martha E ^a   de Carlo Santiago, Catherine ^a   Einhorn, Lindsey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Coping efficacy; Depression; Displacement; Hurricane; Post traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HURRICANE; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORADO; CYCLONIC STORMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NEW ORLEANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449506558     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800902855781     Document Type: Article

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