Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 109, Issue 7 , Pages 524-532 , July 2010

Population-based Post-crisis Psychological Distress: An Example From the SARS Outbreak in Taiwan

  • Eugene Yu-Chang Peng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Ren-Ai Branch, Taipei, Taiwan
    • School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Been Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Shang-Ta Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Chien Yang

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Educational Measurement and Statistics, National Taichung University, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Donald Edward Morisky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Liang-Ting Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Educational Measurement and Statistics, National Taichung University, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ya-Ling Weng

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Shu-Yu Lyu

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Shu-Yu Lyu, School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei 11031, Taiwan

Received 22 September 2009 ,Revised 22 December 2009 ,Accepted 28 December 2009.

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PII: S0929-6646(10)60087-3

doi: 10.1016/S0929-6646(10)60087-3

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 109, Issue 7 , Pages 524-532 , July 2010

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