The course of postdisaster psychiatric disorders in directly exposed civilians after the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya: A follow-up study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-203

  Zhang, Gus ^a   North, Carol S ^a   Narayanan, Pushpa ^b   Kim, You Seung ^c   Thielman, Samuel ^d,e   Pfefferbaum, Betty ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Office of Medical Services DC   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bombing; Disaster; Mental health; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOMB; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KENYA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVOR; TERRORISM; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BOMBS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KENYA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878419668     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0535-4     Document Type: Article

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