Psychiatric disorders and functional impairment among disaster victims after exposure to a natural disaster: A population based study

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 135-141

  Hussain, Ajmal ^a   Weisaeth, Lars ^a,b   Heir, Trond ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

2004 tsunami; Functional impairment; Mental disorders; Natural disaster; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DYSTHYMIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONING FUNCTION SCORE; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MANIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINI INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW; MORBIDITY; NATURAL DISASTER; NORWAY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PHOBIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; THAILAND; TSUNAMI; WORK AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT SCALE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTERS; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; THAILAND; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 78649660784     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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