@article{ref1,
title="Post-traumatic stress disorder and it's predictors among Tibetan adolescents 3 years after the high-altitude earthquake in China",
journal="Archives of psychiatric nursing",
year="2016",
author="Liu, Dongling and Fu, Liyan and Jing, Zhang and Chen, Changying",
volume="30",
number="5",
pages="593-599",
abstract="This study examined post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and it's predictors among 4072 Tibetan adolescents 3years after the highaltitude earthquake. The instruments included The PTSD Checklist-Civilian version, The Internality, Powerful others, and Chance Scale and The Coping Style Scale. The results indicated the prevalence rate of probable PTSD was 17.8%.The predicting factors for PTSD were found to being aged 14 or older, being senior student, being monitor, being buried/injured, have family member died/amputated, have severer property loss, have witnessed death, have negative coping skills, and have power others locus of control. Effective mental health services should be developed to facilitate post-disaster recovery.<br><br>Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0883-9417",
doi="10.1016/j.apnu.2016.01.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2016.01.005"
}