[lit-ideas] New Yorkers after 9-11
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 02:02:34 EDT
Hi,
Given the discussion of panic attacks and thinking of those we know who are
in NYC...though I am not really trying to move the discussion to PTSD <g>.
I'm looking forward to the group read. I'll be requesting it
tomorrow--probably through WorldCat--so glad that so many libraries are totally
linked in
this way and that inter-library loan exists!
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
Many Poorer New Yorkers Suffered Post-9/11 PTSD
Most saw their general physician for help with post-traumatic stress
disorder, study found
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_33549.html
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HealthDay
Robert Preidt
Monday, May 15, 2006
MONDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Long after the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center, low-income, immigrant patients in New York City continued
to suffer post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), researchers report.
The study also concluded that experiencing terrorist events second-hand,
such as watching television news reports, does not cause PTSD, unless a person
is already at increased risk for the disorder.
Researchers screened 930 men and women, ages 18 to 70, for PTSD in the
months following the 9/11 attacks. The participants were primary care patients
at
the New York Presbyterian
Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center. The majority were low-income
immigrants, mostly Hispanic.
Previous community studies had found that PTSD rates dropped after six
months. But this study "suggests that a sizable portion of the sample
population
continues to have PTSD associated with significant functional impairment seven
to 16 months after the 9/11 attacks," lead author Yuval Neria, professor at
Columbia University and co-director of the Center for the Study of Trauma and
Resilience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, said in a prepared
statement.
Her team published the study in the latest issue of General Hospital
Psychiatry.
"Our findings highlight the specific needs for health care associated with
post-disaster psychopathology among low-income Hispanic primary care
patients," he said.
Neria noted that "many of these patients, for cultural or economic reasons,
shun traditional mental health services and rely heavily on their primary
care doctors for the provision of
mental health intervention and treatment."
"This study reinforces the idea that early detection and treatment of PTSD
in the primary care setting makes perfect sense," Dr. Anthony Ng, chairman of
the American Psychiatric
Association's Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster, said in a
prepared statement.
"Many in the population under study would be reluctant to seek psychiatric
help for fear of being stigmatized within their communities, even though they
are, in fact, at increased risk for PTSD and its associated illnesses," Ng
said.
HealthDay
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