The Effects of a natural disaster on child behavior : evidence for posttraumatic stress.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: NOV 1993Description: 5 pSubject: A prospective study of children examined both before and after a flood disaster in Bangladesh is used to test the hypothesis that stressful events play a causal role in the development of behavioral disorders in children. Six months before the disaster, structured measures of selected behavioral problems were made during an epidemiological study of disability among 2-to-9-year-old children. Five months after the disaster, a representative sample of 162 surviving children was reevaluated. Between the pre- and postflood assessments, the prevalence of aggressive behavior increased from zero to nearly 10%, and 45 of the 134 children who had bladder control before the flood (34%) developed enuresis. These results help define what may be considered symptoms of posttraumatic distress in childhood; they also contribute to mounting evidence of the need to develop and evaluate interventions and psychological consequences of children's exposure to extreme and traumatic situations
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 155.935083 EFF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005728285 |
Bibliography: p. 1552-1553
Reprinted from American Journal of Public Health; 1993; Vol. 83; No. 11; p. 1549-1553
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A prospective study of children examined both before and after a flood disaster in Bangladesh is used to test the hypothesis that stressful events play a causal role in the development of behavioral disorders in children. Six months before the disaster, structured measures of selected behavioral problems were made during an epidemiological study of disability among 2-to-9-year-old children. Five months after the disaster, a representative sample of 162 surviving children was reevaluated. Between the pre- and postflood assessments, the prevalence of aggressive behavior increased from zero to nearly 10%, and 45 of the 134 children who had bladder control before the flood (34%) developed enuresis. These results help define what may be considered symptoms of posttraumatic distress in childhood; they also contribute to mounting evidence of the need to develop and evaluate interventions and psychological consequences of children's exposure to extreme and traumatic situations
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