Citation

Shore JH, Tatum EL, Vollmer WM. Am. J. Psychiatry 1986; 143(5): 590-595.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

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PMID

3963245

Abstract

Following the 1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption, psychiatric reactions were studied in the disaster area and in a control community. Using the new criterion-based diagnostic method for psychiatric epidemiologic research, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, the authors found a significant prevalence of disaster-related psychiatric disorders. These Mount St. Helens disorders included depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress reaction. There was a progressive "dose-response" relationship in the comparison of control, low-exposure, and high-exposure groups. The dose-response pattern occurred among both the bereaved and the property-loss victims.

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