The stability of emotional symptoms among disaster victims in a developing country |
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| Authors: | Bruno R. Lima Shaila Pai Julio Lozano Hernan Santacruz |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Departments of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and Mental Hygiene, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;(2) Community Psychiatry Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;(3) Department of Psychiatry, University Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia;(4) Division of Mental Health, State Health Department, Tolima, Colombia |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
This stability of emotional distress following a major disaster in Colombia was evaluated in a 2-year follow-up of a representative subsample of 40 adult victims of the Armero disaster in Colombia. The utilization of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire indicated an increase of emotional distress from 55% to 78%. However, the mean neurotic subscale score, the most frequent neurotic symptoms, the strongest predictors of emotional distress, and the symptom-profiles of distressed victims were essentially the same. |
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| Keywords: | emotional distress disasters developing countries |
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