Tsunami Damage and Its Impact on Mental Health

Psychosomatics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-197

  Tayama, Jun ^a   Ichikawa, Tatsuki ^b   Eguchi, Katsuyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Taro ^a   Shirabe, Susumu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVOR; TSUNAMI; ADULT; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84863854431     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.11.005     Document Type: Letter

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