Psychological effects of disaster relief activities on Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 190-198

  Dobashi, Kosuke ^a   Nagamine, Masanori ^b   Shigemura, Jun ^b   Tsunoda, Tomoya ^b   Shimizu, Kunio ^b   Yoshino, Aihide ^b   Nomura, Soichiro ^b  

^a Ground Self Defense Force Camp Kokura   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 12; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERAROUSAL SCORE; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; JAPAN; K10 SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PHENOMENA; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS ASSESSMENT; RELIEF WORK; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SOCIAL CARE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOLDIER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIEF WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922276861     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2014.77.2.190     Document Type: Article

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