Predictors of complicated grief after a natural disaster: A population study two years after the 2004 South-East Asian tsunami

Death Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-150

  Kristensen, Pål ^a   Lars, Weisæth ^a   Heir, Trond ^a  

^a Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SURVIVOR; TSUNAMI;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BEREAVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 74249104707     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180903492455     Document Type: Article

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