Impact of psychological problems in chemical warfare survivors with severe ophthalmologic complication, a cross sectional study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ghaedi, Gholamhosein ^a   Ghasemi, Hassan ^a   Mousavi, Batool ^b   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^b   Rahnama, Parvin ^a   Jafari, Farhad ^a   Afshin Majd, Siamak ^a   Sadeghi Naeeni, Maryam ^a   Naghizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi ^c  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b JANBAZAN MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER JMERC   (Iran)

^c FASA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ocular complication; Psychological status; Sulfur mustard; War veterans

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYE INJURY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HOSPITAL; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARANOIA; PHOBIA; PSYCHOSIS; SOMATIZATION; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; UNEMPLOYMENT; VETERAN; CHEMICAL BURN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EYE BURN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGED; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE BURNS; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IRAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MUSTARD GAS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVORS; VETERANS;

EID: 84859641217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-36     Document Type: Article

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