✦ LIBER ✦
The stability of emotional symptoms among disaster victims in a developing country
✍ Scribed by Bruno R. Lima; Shaila Pai; Julio Lozano; Hernan Santacrutz
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 406 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
This stability of emotional distress following a major disaster in Colombia was evaluated in a 2-year follow-up of a representative subsarnple of 40 adult victims of the Armero disaster in Colombia. The utilization of the Seu-Reporting Questionnaire indicated an increase of emotional distress from 55% to 78%. However, the mean neuroticsubscalescore, the most frequent neurotic symptoms, the strongest predictors of emotional distress, and the symptom-profiles of distressed victims were essentially the same.