September 3, 1999
Stress Disorder Found to Vary Among Disaster Survivors
Two new studies provide sharply contrasting views on the effect of disasters on mental health. One study documents widespread mental-health disorders in survivors of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, while the other finds that people who survive a plane crash have a sunnier outlook on life than do those who have flown without incident.
The Oklahoma City study, reported in the August 25 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, estimates that 45
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