Parental mental health after the accidental death of a son during military service: 23-Year follow-up study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-68

  Kristensen, Pål ^a   Heir, Trond ^a   Herlofsen, Pål H ^b   Langsrud, Øyvind ^c   Weisæth, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Statistics ^*

^c Norwegian Statistics   (Norway)

Author keywords

couple distress; mental health; military accident; Parental grief; sex differences

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY SERVICE; MOTHER; PANIC; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AVALANCHES; DEATH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FATHERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOTHERS; NORWAY; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84855318161     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31823e5796     Document Type: Article

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