TY - JOUR AU - Tian, Yali AU - Wong, Thomas KS AU - Li, Jiping AU - Jiang, Xiaolian PY - 2014 DA - 2014/10/15 TI - Posttraumatic stress disorder and its risk factors among adolescent survivors three years after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in China JO - BMC Public Health SP - 1073 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Serious and long-lasting psychiatric consequences can be found in children and adolescents following earthquake, including the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although researchers have been focused on PTSD recently, its prevalence and risk factors after a huge natural disaster are still unclear because of limited sample size. The purpose of this study is to explore the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adolescent survivors three years after the Wenchuan earthquake, describe PTSD symptoms, and to find out risk factors of PTSD. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1073 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1073 ID - Tian2014 ER -