Psychiatry Research
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 13-22 , 15 December 2001

Psychiatric morbidity and post-traumatic symptoms among survivors in the early stage following the 1999 earthquake in Taiwan

Received 1 May 2000 ,Revised 14 December 2000 ,Accepted 14 May 2001.

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Psychiatry Research
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