Impairment in Holocaust survivors after 33 years: data from an unbiased community sample
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 139 (6) , 773-777
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.6.773
Abstract
The psychiatric status of 135 survivors of the Holocaust was compared with that of control subjects. This study stands apart from most previous reports in that the 2 groups were generated by a random sample survey of all heads of households in a community (Montreal, Canada). Survivors were more likely to have mild psychiatric symptoms regardless of the age at which they experienced the Holocaust. The difference between survivors and controls in levels of mild psychiatric symptoms was greatly amplified in those respondents who perceived a recent increase in anti-Semitism in Montreal.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: