The impact of disaster work on community volunteers: The role of peri-traumatic distress, level of personal affectedness, sleep quality and resource loss, on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective health

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 971-977

  Thormar, Sigridur B ^a   Gersons, Berthold P R ^b   Juen, Barbara ^c   Djakababa, Maria Nelden ^a   Karlsson, Thorlakur ^d   Olff, Miranda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Disaster; Loss of resources; Peri traumatic distress; PTSD; Sleep; Subjective health; Volunteer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERI TRAUMATIC DISTRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RED CROSS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SLEEP QUALITY; VOLUNTARY WORKER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; INDONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIEF WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RED CROSS; RELIEF WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VOLUNTEERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84909639019     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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