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Basic Research Article

Psychosocial resources underlying disaster survivors’ posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories: insight from in-depth interviews with mothers who survived Hurricane Katrina

Recursos psicosociales que subyacen en las trayectorias de sintomas de estres postraumatico de los sobrevivientes de desastres: perspectiva de entrevistas en profundidad con madres que sobrevivieron al Huracan Katrina

灾难幸存者创伤后应激症状轨迹背后的心理社会资源:对卡特里娜飓风幸存母亲的深入访谈的洞见

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Article: 2211355 | Received 09 Dec 2022, Accepted 25 Apr 2023, Published online: 19 Jun 2023

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