@article{ref1,
title="The role of peri-traumatic stress and disruption distress in predicting symptoms of major depression following exposure to a natural disaster",
journal="Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry",
year="2017",
author="Bell, Caroline J. and Boden, Joseph M. and Horwood, L. John and Mulder, Roger T.",
volume="51",
number="7",
pages="711-718",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Few studies have examined the contribution of specific disaster-related experiences to symptoms of depression. The aims of this study were to do this by examining the roles of peri-traumatic stress and distress due to lingering disaster-related disruption in explaining linkages between disaster exposure and major depressive disorder symptoms among a cohort exposed to the 2010-2011 Canterbury (New Zealand) earthquakes. <br><br>METHODS: Structural equation models were fitted to data obtained from the Christchurch Health and Development Study at age 35 ( n = 495), 20-24 months following the onset of the disaster. Measures included earthquake exposure, peri-traumatic stress, disruption distress and symptoms of major depressive disorder. <br><br>RESULTS: The associations between earthquake exposure and major depression were explained largely by the experience of peri-traumatic stress during the earthquakes (β = 0.180, p < 0.01) and not by disruption distress following the earthquakes (β = 0.048, p = 0.47). <br><br>CONCLUSION: The results suggest that peri-traumatic stress has been under-recognised as a predictor of major depressive disorder.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-8674",
doi="10.1177/0004867417691852",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867417691852"
}