TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Psychiatric consequences of the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya
JO  - Psychiatric Annals
A1  - Thielman, S.B.
SP  - 644
EP  - 649
VL  - 34
IS  - 8
N2  - The Nairobi bombing highlights the complexities of providing psychiatric care to traumatized people in an overseas setting. The fact that the victims of the bombing were both Americans and Kenyans created special problems in terms of the delivery of care but also provided an opportunity for two very different cultures to interact with each other at the doctor-patient level, peer-to-peer level (for the survivors), and professional level (for the providers). The persistence of symptoms among both American and Kenyan survivors suggests both the intensity of exposure to a terrorist event and the intensity of disruption of the lives of the survivors may have contributed to the chronicity of the symptoms we observed. Clearly, additional study of the response to trauma in non-Western settings will be helpful to understanding the nature of post-trauma psychological reactions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0048-5713
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0048-5713-20040801-19
ID  - ref1
ER  -