Loss and psychosocial factors as determinants of quality of life in a cohort of earthquake survivors

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Khachadourian, Vahe ^a   Armenian, Haroutune K ^b   Demirchyan, Anahit ^a   Goenjian, Armen ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Material loss; Psychopathology; Quality of life; Social support

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; AGE; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARMENIA; COHORT STUDIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84928663365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-015-0209-5     Document Type: Article

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