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| Title: | Television Images and Probable Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After September 11. The Role of Background Characteristics, Event Exposures, and Perievent Panic |
| Authors: | Ahern, Jennifer
Galea, Sandro
Resnick, Heidi S
Vlahov, David |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Abstract: | Television viewing has been associated with posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after disasters and traumas;
we examined characteristics that may explain this association among
New Yorkers after September 11, 2001. Among 2001 respondents to
a random-digit dial telephone survey conducted 4 months after
September 11, people who viewed more television images in the 7
days after September 11 had more probable PTSD. People in the
highest third of viewing had a 2.32 times greater odds of probable
PTSD after September 11 compared with people in the lowest third
of viewing; after adjustment for explanatory variables, the relative
odds of probable PTSD were 1.66. Adjustment for perievent panic
accounted for 44% of the reduction in association between television
and probable PTSD, suggesting that perievent emotional reactions
may play an important role in the television and psychopathology
association. Television may merit consideration as a potential exposure
to a traumatic event. |
| Appears in Collections: | Public Health, School of (SPH)
Epidemiology, Department of (SPH)
Institute for Social Research (ISR)
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