Predictors of trauma in bank employee robbery victims

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 2605-2612

  Mucci, Nicola ^a   Giorgi, Gabriele ^b   Perez, Javier Fiz ^b   Iavicoli, Ivo ^a   Arcangeli, Giulio ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bank; Bank robbery; Occupational health; PTSD; Stress; Workplace

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYEE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 12; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENT SCALE REVISED 6 SCALE; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; VICTIM;

EID: 84943765642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S88836     Document Type: Article

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