The effect of prolonged exposure to war-related stress among hospital personnel with different affect types: Lessons from the second lebanon war and the gaza "cast lead" operation

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Palgi, Yuval ^a   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^b   Shrira, Amit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cast lead; Hospital personnel; Negative affect; Positive affect; PTSD; Second lebanon war

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925827189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v3i0.7165     Document Type: Article

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