Mental health problems among search and rescue workers deployed in the Haïti earthquake 2010: A pre-post comparison

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-105

  van der Velden, Peter G ^a,b,c   van Loon, Peter ^a   Benight, Charles C ^d   Eckhardt, Thomas ^e  

^a Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ARQ PSYCHOTRAUMA EXPERT GROUP   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e USAR NL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coping self efficacy; Disaster; Mental health services; Prospective; PTSD symptoms; Rescue workers; Substance use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DUTCH; EARTHQUAKE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NATURAL DISASTER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECOGNITION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESCUE WORK; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867138995     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.02.017     Document Type: Article

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