TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adolescent Psychology
KW - Age Factors
KW - Cause of Death
KW - Cohort Studies
KW - Control Groups
KW - Data Collection/statistics & numerical data
KW - Family Practice/statistics & numerical data
KW - Female
KW - Fires/statistics & numerical data
KW - Health Status
KW - Humans
KW - Life Change Events
KW - Logistic Models
KW - Male
KW - Medical Records Systems, Computerized/statistics & numerical data
KW - Mental Disorders/epidemiology
KW - Morbidity
KW - Netherlands/epidemiology
KW - Prospective Studies
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis/epidemiology
KW - Survivors/psychology/statistics & numerical data
AU - T. Dorn
AU - J. C. Yzermans
AU - P. M. Spreeuwenberg
AU - A. Schilder
AU - J. van der Zee
A1 - 
AB - The literature on adult trauma survivors demonstrates that those exposed to traumatic stress have a poorer physical health status than nonexposed individuals. Studies on physical health effects in adolescent trauma survivors, in contrast, are scarce. In the current study, it was hypothesized that adolescents who have been involved in a mass burn incident (N = 124) will demonstrate more physical and mental health problems than an unaffected cohort from the same community (N = 1,487). Health data were extracted from electronic medical records, covering 1-year prefire and 4-years postfire. When compared to the prefire baseline, survivors showed significantly larger increases in mental, respiratory, and musculoskeletal problems than community controls during the first year after the fire, but not during the later years.
BT - Journal of traumatic stress
C5 - HIT & Telehealth
CP - 2
CY - United States
DO - 10.1002/jts.20328
IS - 2
JF - Journal of traumatic stress
N2 - The literature on adult trauma survivors demonstrates that those exposed to traumatic stress have a poorer physical health status than nonexposed individuals. Studies on physical health effects in adolescent trauma survivors, in contrast, are scarce. In the current study, it was hypothesized that adolescents who have been involved in a mass burn incident (N = 124) will demonstrate more physical and mental health problems than an unaffected cohort from the same community (N = 1,487). Health data were extracted from electronic medical records, covering 1-year prefire and 4-years postfire. When compared to the prefire baseline, survivors showed significantly larger increases in mental, respiratory, and musculoskeletal problems than community controls during the first year after the fire, but not during the later years.
PP - United States
PY - 2008
SN - 0894-9867; 0894-9867
SP - 239
EP - 242
EP - 
T1 - A cohort study of the long-term impact of a fire disaster on the physical and mental health of adolescents
T2 - Journal of traumatic stress
TI - A cohort study of the long-term impact of a fire disaster on the physical and mental health of adolescents
U1 - HIT & Telehealth
U3 - 10.1002/jts.20328
VL - 21
VO - 0894-9867; 0894-9867
Y1 - 2008
ER -