Longitudinal mental health impact among police responders to the 9/11 terrorist attack

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 297-312

  Bowler, Rosemarie M ^a   Harris, Matthew ^b   Li, Jiehui ^c   Gocheva, Vihra ^a   Stellman, Steven D ^c,d   Wilson, Katherine ^b   Alper, Howard ^c   Schwarzer, Ralf ^e,f   Cone, James E ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

9 11 disaster; DSM IV; Longitudinal study; Mental health; Police; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK FACTOR; TERRORISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; RISK FACTORS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84858336425     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22000     Document Type: Article

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