Facebook, quality of life, and mental health outcomes in post-disaster urban environments: The L'Aquila earthquake experience

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Masedu, Francesco ^a   Mazza, Monica ^a   Di Giovanni, Chiara ^b   Calvarese, Anna ^b   Tiberti, Sergio ^a   Sconci, Vittorio ^b   Valenti, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Local Health Agency of the National Health System   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mental health; Online social network; Post disaster; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991791211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00286     Document Type: Article

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