TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Psychological consequences of the 1999 earthquake in Turkey
JO  - Journal of Traumatic Stress
A1  - Torun, Fuat
A1  - Aybar, Gaye
A1  - Erol, Ayla
A1  - Aydin, May
A1  - Karakaya, Isik
A1  - Kesepara, Coskun
A1  - Yildiz, Mustafa
A1  - Corapcioglu, Aytul
A1  - Onder, Emin
A1  - Coskun, Bulent
A1  - Tural, Umit
SP  - 451
EP  - 459
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
N2  - We explored the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its relation to demographic characteristics and other risk factors for developing PTSD in a large sample (N = 910) of earthquake survivors living in tent city. Twenty-five percent of the sample met DSM-IV criteria for PTSD assessed with the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Self Test (PTSD-S). Peritraumatic factors explained the most variance when the risk factors were grouped as demographics, pretraumatic, peritraumatic, and posttraumatic. The study emphasized that PTSD among the earthquake victims was as prevalent in Turkey as after disasters in other developing countries but higher than usually found after disasters in developed countries, and there was a relation between some factors-mostly peritraumatic-and PTSD.
LA  - 
SN  - 0894-9867
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -