Are the elderly more vulnerable to psychological impact of natural disaster? A population-based survey of adult survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Open Access
- 30 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 10 (1), 172
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-172
Abstract
The association between ages and psychological impact of natural disasters has not been well characterized. A population-based study was conducted 15 months after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to assess whether elderly survivors were more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and general psychiatric morbidity.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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