Citation

Elbedour S, Baker A, Shalhoub-Kevorkian N, Irwin M, Belmaker RH. Depress. Anxiety 1999; 9(1): 27-31.

Affiliation

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9989347

Abstract

The authors attempted to determine the frequency of severe psychological responses in surviving family members in a religious Muslim culture. Twenty-three wives, twelve daughters and twenty-six sons of heads of households massacred while praying in the Hebron mosque on 25 February 1994 were interviewed with the clinician-administered PTSD scale; 50% of daughters, 39% of wives, and 23% of sons met criteria for PTSD. PTSD or traumatic bereavement occurs with high frequency after a major tragedy in a Moslem society, despite religious admiration of dead martyrs.

Language: en