Mental distress among Liberian medical staff working at the China Ebola Treatment Unit: A cross sectional study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Li, Li ^a,d   Wan, Changli ^b,d   Ding, Ru ^b   Liu, Yi ^c,d   Chen, Jue ^c,d   Wu, Zonggui ^b   Liang, Chun ^b   He, Zhiqing ^b,d   Li, Chengzhong ^c,d  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Second patch of Medical Team of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to Liberia   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHINA EBOLA TREATMENT UNIT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISINFECTION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GLOBAL SEVERITY INDEX; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL SENSITIVITY; LIBERIAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARANOIA; PHOBIA; POSITIVE SYMPTOM DISTRESS INDEX; POSITIVE SYMPTOM TOTAL INDEX; RESPONSIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; WARD; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIBERIA; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIBERIA; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942240775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-015-0341-2     Document Type: Article

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