Hospital personnel reactions to Haiti's earthquake: A preliminary matching study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1700-1701

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Soffer, Col Yechiel ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; LETTER; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; NATURAL DISASTER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 78650431888     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.10l06205blu     Document Type: Letter

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