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- Title
Psychological symptoms of Turkish children and adolescents after the 1999 earthquake: Exposure, gender, location, and time duration.
- Authors
Şahin, Nesrin Hisli; Batıgün, Ayşegül Durak; Yılmaz, Banu
- Abstract
The authors describe their study of posttraumatic stress symptoms of children and adolescents after the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey. The rate of possible PTSD cases is also presented. The findings are reported as the results of two different studies. Location had a main effect on almost all of the dependent variables for both samples. The posttraumatic stress symptom scores for both groups significantly decreased 3 months after the initial assessment. The best predictors of the perceived posttraumatic stress symptoms for both children and adolescents were found to be perceived negative school performance and exposure.
- Subjects
TURKEY; POST-traumatic stress disorder in children; EARTHQUAKES; NATURAL disasters; SYMPTOMS in children; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; CHILDHOOD attitudes; ARCHAEOLOGY &; natural disasters; STATISTICAL sampling
- Publication
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2007, Vol 20, Issue 3, p335
- ISSN
0894-9867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jts.20217