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dc.contributor.author | McFarlane, A. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Clayer, J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bookless, C. | - |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology: the international journal for research in social and genetic epidemiology and mental health services, 1997; 32(5):261-268 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0933-7954 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1433-9285 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/6618 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the prevalence of mental health problems after a major bushfire in Australia and examined the validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) (Goldberg 1978) against the Anxiety, Affective and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder modules of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS; Robins et al. 1981). Study 1 was carried out 12 months after the Ash Wednesday bushfires and sought to include all the victims of the fires. Study 2 was conducted 20 months after the fires and included a sample of victims who had experienced major losses in the fires. Twelve months after the fires, 42% (n = 1,526) of the victims were defined as a potential psychiatric case using the GHQ. This rate indicated a significantly greater level of morbidity than found in communities that have not experienced a natural disaster. Twenty months after the fires, 23% (n = 43) were defined as "cases". The 28-item GHQ was found to be a valid instrument for defining the presence of psychiatric disorder in a disaster-effected community. The findings demonstrated that lasting psychiatric morbidity is associated with natural disasters. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | SPRINGER VERLAG | - |
dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00789038 | - |
dc.subject | Humans | - |
dc.subject | Incidence | - |
dc.subject | Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic | - |
dc.subject | Disasters | - |
dc.subject | Fires | - |
dc.subject | Australia | - |
dc.subject | Female | - |
dc.subject | Male | - |
dc.title | Psychiatric morbidity following a natural disaster: an Australian bushfire | - |
dc.type | Journal article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/BF00789038 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
dc.identifier.orcid | McFarlane, A. [0000-0002-3829-9509] | - |
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