Correlations between psychosocial factors and psychological trauma symptoms among rescue personnel

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 166-169

  Soffer, Yechiel ^a   Wolf, Jonathan Jacob ^b   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^c  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Haiti; post traumatic stress disorder; psychological trauma; rescue personnel

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESCUE WORK; SATISFACTION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DISASTERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RESCUE WORK; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855524807     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X11006224     Document Type: Article

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