Psychological responses in family members after the Hebron massacre

✍ Scribed by Salman Elbedour; Ahmad Baker; Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian; Martin Irwin; R.H. Belmaker

• Book ID: 101296842
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1091-4269
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6394(1999)9:1<27::aid-da4>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

The authors attempted to determine the frequency of severe psychological responses in surviving family members in a religious Muslim culture. Twentythree wives, twelve daughters and twenty-six sons of heads of households massacred while praying in the Hebron mosque on 25 February 1994 were interviewed with the clinician-administered PTSD scale; 50% of daughters, 39% of wives, and 23% of sons met criteria for PTSD. PTSD or traumatic bereavement occurs with high frequency after a major tragedy in a Moslem society, despite religious admiration of dead martyrs.

Depression and Anxiety 9:27-31, 1999.