Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and burnout in Pakistani earthquake recovery workers

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 185, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 161-166

  Ehring, Thomas ^a   Razik, Saiqa ^b   Emmelkamp, Paul M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Burnout; Depression; Earthquake; Professionals; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MALE; PAKISTAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVOR; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESCUE WORK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650186577     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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