Prevalence of ptsd and depression among junior middle school students in a rural town far from the epicenter of the Wenchuan Earthquake in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Wei ^a   Fu, Wei ^a   Wu, Jin ^c   Ma, Xian cang ^a   Sun, Xue li ^b   Huang, Yi ^b   Hashimoto, Kenji ^c   Gao, Cheng ge ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION TREES; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STUDENTS;

EID: 84864227669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041665     Document Type: Article

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