Psychological and behavioural impacts of the 2008 China earthquake on blood donors

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-148

  Tian, F ^a   Wang, J ^b   Huang, Y ^b   Guo, X ^c   Yun, Z ^d   Yang, T ^e   Nelson, K ^a   Schreiber, G B ^f   Ness, P ^a   Shan, H ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (China)

^c Mianyang Blood Center   (China)

^d Luoyang Blood Center   (China)

^e Yunnan Kunming Blood Center   (China)

^f WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

donation behaviour; donor; earthquake; post traumatic stress disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD DONOR; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HONESTY; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 77954756027     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2010.01320.x     Document Type: Article

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