Trajectories of PTSD risk and resilience in World Trade Center responders: An 8-year prospective cohort study

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 205-219

  Pietrzak, R H ^a,b   Feder, A ^b   Singh, R ^b   Schechter, C B ^c   Bromet, E J ^d   Katz, C L ^b   Reissman, D B ^e   Ozbay, F ^b   Sharma, V ^b   Crane, M ^b   Harrison, D ^f   Herbert, R ^b   Levin, S M ^b   Luft, B J ^d   Moline, J M ^g   Stellman, J M ^h   Udasin, I G ⁱ   Landrigan, P J ^b   Southwick, S M ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^h Columbia University ^*  (United States)

ⁱ RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; latent modeling; longitudinal data; post traumatic stress disorder; responders; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TERRORISM;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84889787866     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291713000597     Document Type: Article

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