Holocaust survivors coping with open heart surgery decades later: Posttraumatic symptoms and quality of life

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 443-452

  Schreiber, Shaul ^a,b   Soskolne, Varda ^c,d   Kozohovitch, Haim ^e   Deviri, Ehud ^f  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e NONE   (Israel)

^f BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Holocaust experience; Open heart surgery; Prolonged trauma; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PAIN; PATIENT MOBILITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL;

EID: 9644281480     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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