Long-Term stress reactions in new immigrants to israel exposed to the chernobyl accident

Psychological well-being and risk perceptions of mothers in Kyiv, Ukraine, 19 years after the Chornobyl disaster

“…Psychological well-being was assessed with the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R; Sundin & Horowitz, 2002, the major depression module of the WHO version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0; Kessler & Üstün, 2004) and an abbreviated version of the Symptom Checklist-90 (Derogatis, 1983;Tarabrina, Lazebnaya, Zelenova, & Lasko, 1996). The IES-R was used to measure probable Chornobyl-related PTSD (Brewin et al, 2000;Cwikel et al, 2000). It is a 22-item self-report measure evaluating the severity of PTSD symptoms in the past month on a scale from 1 = not at all to 5 = extremely (Cronbach's α = 0.95).…”

Post-traumatic stress disorder following disasters: a systematic review

“…A wide range of potential types of exposure has been studied. Importantly, the risk of PTSD has been repeatedly shown to be associated with severity of exposure to the disaster across numerous studies (Durham et al 1985;Green et al 1990Green et al , 1994Abenhaim et al 1992;Joseph et al 1994;Tyano et al 1996;Cwikel et al 2000;Tucker et al 2000;Sungur & Kaya, 2001;Galea et al 2002;Neria et al 2006c). As we already noted above, the prevalence of PTSD is higher among persons who were directly exposed to the disaster (often referred as the 'victims' of a disaster in disaster studies), lower among rescue workers and first responders, and yet even lower in the general population.…”

Personal resources, appraisal, and coping in the adaptation process of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union.

“…Several studies have addressed the topic of FSU immigrants’ difficulties in their adaptation to Israel, some focusing on vulnerable groups among this population such as adolescents (Mirsky, 1997), women (Remennick, 1999), immigrants from the Chernobyl-affected areas (Cwikel et al, 2000; Remennick, 2002), or immigrants coping with a sever disease (Baider, Kaufman, Ever-Hadani, & Kaplan De-Nour, 1996; Ben-David & Gilbar, 1997). It has been claimed that elevated levels of distress accompany the first steps of FSU immigrants’ adaptation in Israel, especially for women (Ritsner, Ponizovsky, Nechamkin, & Modai, 2001).…”