Worry experienced during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pandemic in Korea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Ro, Jun Soo ^a   Lee, Jin Seok ^b   Kang, Sung Chan ^b   Jung, Hye Min ^b  

^a Armed Forces Medical Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; PANDEMIC; PATIENT WORRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH KOREA; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EPIDEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PANDEMICS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014867767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173234     Document Type: Article

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