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Coping with post-traumatic stress
— young, middle-aged and elderly comparisons | | Author(s) | Man Cheung Chung, Julie Werrett, Yvonne Easthope |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 4, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 333-343 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Stress ; Anxiety ; Mental health [elderly] ; Rail accidents ; Air accidents ; Young people ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | Debate persists about whether people of different ages react similarly to traumatic events, and whether older people are more vulnerable to such events or better able to cope with them. 148 community residents who were exposed to two technological disasters - an aircraft crash near Coventry, and a train collision in Staffordshire - participated. They were assessed using the Impact of Event Scale (IES), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the Ways of Coping Checklist (WOC). In terms of IES, GHQ and WOC, no significant differences were found across the three age groups. However, main effects were found according to type of disaster and intensity of exposure to disaster. One significant interaction effect was that residents exposed to the aircraft crash used significantly more confrontational coping that those exposed to the train collision, in all three age groups. On the whole, the more they experienced intrusive thoughts and avoidance behaviour, the more they experienced general health problems. These results appear to contradict the vulnerability hypothesis. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040505218 A |
| Classmark | QNH: ENP: D: ONB: ONT: SB: SE: BB: 48 |
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