Evacuation of Swedish survivors after the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami: The survivors' perspective and symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

CONCLUSIONS: One-third of Swedish tsunami survivors preferred a later evacuation from disaster sites. These findings call for further studies, with prospective designs, to disentangle the causal direction of the association between evacuation time and PTSS. PMID: 29708026 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29708026?dopt=Abstract

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - April 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gudmundsdottir R, Hultman CM, Valdimarsdottir U Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research