Posttraumatic stress disorder and somatic symptoms among child and adolescent survivors following the Lushan earthquake in China: A six-month longitudinal study

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 100-106

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Zhu, Shenyue ^b   Du, Changhui ^c   Zhang, Ye ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Education Supervision Department Baoxing County Education Bureau   (China)

^c Chengdu Center of Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Child; Earthquake; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Predictors; Somatic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARM PAIN; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHILD; CHILDRENS REVISED IMPACT OF EVENT SCALE; CHINA; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EARTHQUAKE; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INDIGESTION; LEG PAIN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NAUSEA; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 13; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 15; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH PAIN; SURVIVOR; THORAX PAIN; AROUSAL; BREATHING; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHINA; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PAIN; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATION; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937515367     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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