Posttraumatic stress in professional firefighters in Japan: Rescue efforts after the great East Japan earthquake (Higashi Nihon Dai-Shinsai)

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 416-418

  Fushimi, M ^a  

^a Akita Prefectural Mental Health and Welfare Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

firefighters; Impact of Event Scale; Japan; Keywords earthquake; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FIRE FIGHTER; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE WORK; STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FIREFIGHTERS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RESCUE WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84870016636     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12001070     Document Type: Article

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