Children's PTSD reactions one year after a sniper attack at their school
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (11) , 1526-1530
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.11.1526
Abstract
Fourteen months after a sniper attack at an elementary school, level of exposure to that event remained the primary predictor of ongoing posttramatic stress reactions in 100 schoolchildren who were followed up. Guilt feelings and knowing the child who was killed were associated with a greater number of symptoms. Grief reactions occurred independent of degree of exposure to the event. The authors discuss the public health implications of these longitudinal findings.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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