Risk factors for PTSD after Typhoon Morakot among elderly people in Taiwanese aboriginal communities

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1686-1691

  Chen, Yi Lung ^a   Lai, Chung Sheng ^b,c   Chen, Wu Tsung ^a   Hsu, Wen Yau ^d   Wu, Yi Cheng ^c   Wang, Peng Wei ^c   Chen, Cheng Sheng ^b,c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

comorbidity; depression; disaster; older persons; post traumatic stress disorder; relocation; Taiwan; trauma

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PTSD SYMPTOM SCALE; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 80455150006     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610211000986     Document Type: Article

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