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[Psychiatric disorders among victims of disasters in Ecuador]
B R Lima1, H Chávez, N Samaniego
1Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Boletin De La Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Pan American Sanitary Bureau
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
Previous studies in developing countries have demonstrated post-disaster stress disorders in a substantial share of the people living through a natural calamity, but questions have remained as to the severity of these mental health problems. This article reports information derived from a 1987 study of Ecuadorian earthquake victims that shows many of the victims had diagnosable psychiatric disorders and provides insight into the nature of those disorders.