Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in students 23 months after tsunami

Prevention of Psychopathological Consequences in Survivors of Tsunamis

“…It is also necessary to emphasize that in order to be considered as an at-risk population, you do not have to directly experience the trauma. Ketumarn et al (2009), in a study with Thai students after the T-2004, concluded that indirect exposure through parents, neighbors, community and media, may also be related to PTSD, which is consistent with other studies that emphasize influence of observation and oral transmission.…”

“…For example, following the 1999 earthquakes in Taiwan and Greece, a prevalence of only 4.4% (Wu et al, 2006) and 4.5% (Roussos et al, 2005) was found respectively in the surveyed groups. Ketumarn et al (2009) measured the prevalence of PTSD in Thai students after the T-2004, obtaining 15.1%, 23 months after the event. On the other hand, after the earthquake in California in 1994 (McMillen et al, 2000) and the T-2004 (Dewaraja & Kawamura, 2006), found 48% prevalence of posttraumatic symptoms and 42% of PTSD respectively.…”

Psychometric properties of the Children’s Revised Impact of Events Scale (CRIES) with Bangladeshi children and adolescents

“…This measure has been translated into more than 15 languages and has been used in a number of countries following various large and small scale disasters. Examples include its use with children and adolescents affected by war in Bosnia-Hercegovina (Smith et al, 2001), earthquakes in Greece (Giannopoulou et al, 2006b) and China (Zhao et al, 2009), tsunami in Sri-Lanka (Ketumarn et al, 2009), and also following road-traffic accidents or other emergency medical injuries in the UK (Perrin, Meiser-Stedman & Smith, 2005) and Australia (Kenardy, Spence & Macleod, 2006). The CRIES has shown good reliability, satisfactory face and construct validity, a stable factor structure, and has been used to screen large samples of at-risk children following a wide range of traumatic events (Smith et al, 2003).…”

Relationship between Trauma due to Winter Storm Alexa, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems of Palestinian Children in Gaza Strip

“…16 Similarly, in study the prevalence of PTSD 436 students in the 4 th -9 th grade students in an affected school 23 months after tsunami showed that prevalence of PTSD was 15.1%. 19 In this study, girls reported significantly more PTSD and avoidance symptoms than boys. Our finding were consistent with the study carried out one year after an earthquake in Taiwan showed a distinct division by age and gender in the prevalence of PTSD symptoms.…”