A longitudinal study on emotional distress among local government staff seven years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China

• Main Authors: Yunge Fan (Author), Lili Guan (Author), Hu Xiang (Author), Xianmei Yang (Author), Guoping Huang (Author), Wenhong Cheng (Author), Yongbiao Xie (Author), Xiuzhen Wang (Author), Guangming Liang (Author), Ming He (Author), Ruiru Wang (Author), Jia Hu (Author), Menglin Liu (Author), Xiaojie Mou (Author), Baoming Wu (Author), Hong Ma (Author), Xin Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The current study examined the change in local government staff's emotional distress over 7 years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and the influence of earthquake exposure and professional quality of life (ProQOL) on emotional distress. Methods This longitudinal study ass...