One-year follow-up study of post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents following the Wen-Chuan earthquake in China

BioScience Trends

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 96-102

  Liu, Zhiyue ^a   Yang, Yanfang ^a   Ye, Yunli ^b   Zeng, Ziqian ^a   Xiang, Yingjun ^a   Yuan, Ping ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Luzhou Medical School   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Earthquake; Generalized estimating equations; Post traumatic stress disorder; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; SURVIVOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHINA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77957049416     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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