Attenuating posttraumatic distress with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids among disaster medical assistance team members after the Great East Japan Earthquake: The APOP randomized controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Matsuoka, Yutaka ^a,b,c   Nishi, Daisuke ^a,c   Nakaya, Naoki ^c,d   Sone, Toshimasa ^c,e   Hamazaki, Kei ^c,f   Hamazaki, Tomohito ^c,f   Koido, Yuichi ^a,g  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KAMAKURA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^g Japan Disaster Medical Assistance Team   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; DISASTER MEDICINE; DRUG EFFICACY; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; STUDY DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DISASTER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; HUMANS; JAPAN; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 80051656710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-132     Document Type: Article

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