General hospital staff worries, perceived sufficiency of information and associated psychological distress during the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Goulia, Panagiota ^a   Mantas, Christos ^a   Dimitroula, Danai ^a   Mantis, Dimitrios ^a   Hyphantis, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GREECE; INFLUENZA; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78049504565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-322     Document Type: Article

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