Acute Ebola virus disease patient treatment and health-related quality of life in health care professionals: A controlled study

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 83, Issue , 2016, Pages 69-74

  Lehmann, Marco ^a   Bruenahl, Christian A ^a   Addo, Marylyn M ^a,b   Becker, Stephan ^c   Schmiedel, Stefan ^a   Lohse, Ansgar W ^a   Schramm, Christoph ^a   Löwe, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b German Center for Infection Research   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled study; Ebola virus disease; Health care professionals; Health related quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TERTIARY HEALTHCARE;

EID: 84945535642     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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