Trauma exposure and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency medical services personnel in Hawaii

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 708-711

  Mishra, Shalini ^a   Goebert, Deborah ^a   Char, Elizabeth ^b   Dukes, Patricia ^b   Ahmed, Iqbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b City and County of Honolulu   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HAWAII; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77956208683     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.080622     Document Type: Article

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