TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - A cohort study of the long-term impact of a fire disaster on the physical and mental health of adolescents
JO  - Journal of Traumatic Stress
A1  - Dorn, Tina
A1  - Yzermans, C. Joris
A1  - Spreeuwenberg, Peter M. M.
A1  - Schilder, Agatha
A1  - Zee, Jouke van der
SP  - 239
EP  - 242
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0894-9867
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.20328
ID  - ref1
ER  -