Reactions to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: A preliminary matching study comparing nurses and civilians

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 534-536

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Palgi, Yuval ^b   Hamama Raz, Yaira ^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

Civilians; Disaster; Japan; Nurses; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EARTHQUAKE; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TSUNAMI;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NURSES; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84879850074     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318294828e     Document Type: Article

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