Financial and social circumstances and the incidence and course of PTSD in Mississippi during the first two years after Hurricane Katrina

Galea, Sandro; Tracy, Melissa; Norris, Fran H.; Coffey, Scott F.

doi:10.1002/jts.20355

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“…These women were also more likely to have experienced military sexual trauma, to be unemployed, and to be disabled [41]. Importantly, Galea et al have shown that there may be reciprocal associations between financial loss and PTSD [43]. Specifically, they showed that, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, financial loss predicted PTSD diagnostic status 2 years posttrauma.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recent research focusing specifically on Veterans has shown that important risk factors for homelessness include extreme poverty, a postmilitary psychiatric disorder, and social isolation. Additional studies with homeless Veterans have found associations between PTSD and homelessness and financial loss [41,43]. Homeless female Veterans were more likely to screen positive for PTSD than nonhomeless female Veterans.…”

Section: Financial Problems and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder-related functional impairment: A review

Rodriguez

Holowka²,

Marx³

2012

JRRD

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Abstract-In 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DOD) jointly published the revised VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Posttraumatic Stress. The Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) provides evidence-based recommendations for diagnosing and treating a spectrum of stress-related disorders. Included in the CPG were recommendations for assessing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other stress disorder-related functional impairment. This article complements those CPG recommendations by providing information that may further guide clinicians in the assessment of functional impairment related to PTSD and other stress-related disorders. We briefly review some of the empirical literature on the association between PTSD and functional impairment and some of the more frequently used methods and measures for assessing functional impairment and introduce a new measure currently being developed by our group. We suggest that information obtained via patient self-report and/or clinician rating be supplemented whenever possible with collateral data from friends, family members, coworkers, or supervisors to provide a complete picture of current and premorbid functional status. Finally, we explore several important issues that we encourage clinicians to keep in mind when assessing functional impairment among Veterans and Active Duty servicemembers.Clinical Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov; PT074941, "Development and validation of a PTSD-related functional impairment scale;" http://www.clinicaltrials.gov.

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Section: Financial Problems and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Financial Problems and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder-related functional impairment: A review

Rodriguez

Holowka²,

Marx³

2012

JRRD

161

110

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“…Because of that most of the definitions of a disaster follows a sociological point of view in their description (Lopez-Ibor, 2006). Furthermore, it has been recognized that mental health outcomes are not only dependent on the individual traumatic experiences and the losses, but also from the destruction of the social context which happens after a disaster (Kawachi & Subramanian, 2006;Galea, Tracy, Norris, & Coffey, 2008).…”

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Trust, Social and Personal Attitudes after Wildfires in a Rural Region of Greece

Papanikolaou¹,

Adamis²,

Mellon³

et al. 2012

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We investigated the trust in institutions, social values and personal attitudes of individuals in a part of Greece, after a wildfire disaster. The design of the study was a cross sectional, case-control study. Data collected were trust in institutions, social and personal attitudes, type and number of losses. The results show that victims and controls have low trust in all the institutions and share similar social and personal attitudes. Controlling for other variables, victims of the wildfires were less likely to appreciate stable social rules, to value the dialogue, autonomy, mutual support, modesty, wealth, equality, compliance with law, devotion, public recognition, safety and less likely to trust the government but more likely to trust church. This study suggests that victims of the wildfires in Greece did not appreciate important social values which bring a society together, they have a low trust in institutions, and they have a weak social cohesion which perhaps pre-existed the disaster; just the disaster has made all of them worse.

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“…14,15 There is a small but growing literature on the impact of disasters on older [16][17][18][19][20][21] and oldest-old adults. 22,23 From an epidemiological perspective, older adults are less likely than younger adults to survive disaster.…”

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Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Coastal Residents After Multiple Disasters

Cherry

Sampson

Galea

et al. 2016

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: Exposure to multiple disasters, both natural and technological, is associated with extreme stress and long-term consequences for older adults that are not well understood. In this article, we address age differences in health-related quality of life in older disaster survivors exposed to the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the role played by social engagement in influencing these differences. Methods: Participants were noncoastal residents, current coastal residents, and current coastal fishers who were economically affected by the BP oil spill. Social engagement was estimated on the basis of disruptions in charitable work and social support after the 2005 hurricanes relative to a typical year before the storms. Criterion measures were participants' responses to the SF-36 Health Survey which includes composite indexes of physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) health. Results: The results of logistic regressions indicated that age was inversely associated with SF-36 PCS scores. A reduction in perceived social support after Hurricane Katrina was also inversely associated with SF-36 MCS scores. Conclusions: These results illuminate risk factors that impact well-being among older adults after multiple disasters. Implications of these data for psychological adjustment after multiple disasters are considered. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:90-96)

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Financial and social circumstances and the incidence and course of PTSD in Mississippi during the first two years after Hurricane Katrina

Cited by 288 publications

References 33 publications

Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder-related functional impairment: A review

Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder-related functional impairment: A review

Trust, Social and Personal Attitudes after Wildfires in a Rural Region of Greece

Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Coastal Residents After Multiple Disasters

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