Face it: Collecting mental health and disaster related data using Facebook vs. personal interview: The case of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-93

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Palgi, Yuval ^b   Aviel, Or ^a   Dubiner, Yonit ^a   Evelyn Baruch, ^a   Soffer, Yechiel ^c   Shrira, Amit ^d  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disaster; Japan; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; JAPANESE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ONLINE SYSTEM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTERS; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; JAPAN; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84878361614     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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