Protective factors and predictors of vulnerability to chronic stress: A comparative study of 4 communities after 7 years of continuous rocket fire

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 757-766

  Gelkopf, Marc ^a,b   Berger, Rony ^a,c   Bleich, Avraham ^a,d   Silver, Roxane Cohen ^e  

^a NATAL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Community trauma; Israel; Political violence; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Rocket attacks

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CITY; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOMBS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84857051218     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.022     Document Type: Article

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