Cyclone Tracy and Darwin Evacuees: On the Restoration of the Species
Cyclone Tracy and Darwin Evacuees: On the Restoration of the Species
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飓风特雷西和达尔文撤离者：关于物种的恢复
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发表时间：
1977
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
G. Parker
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作者：
G. Parker
摘要 采用经过验证的心理功能状态客观测量方法来确定达尔文飓风（特雷西飓风）造成的灾难后撤离达尔文群体中心理功能障碍的发生率和病程。虽然心理功能障碍最初（58%）和十周后（41%）有所增加，但在 14 个月时已恢复到澳大利亚总体人口控制水平（22%）。对影响心理功能障碍的因素进行了检查，结果表明样本在不同时间面临两种不同的压力源。最初的精神疾病发病率最明显与认为一个人可能死亡或严重受伤的经历有关，因此被概念化为“死亡压力源”。十周时的精神疾病发病率似乎与“搬迁压力源”的概念最为密切相关。讨论了精神疾病发病率降至一般人口控制水平的原因。
Summary A validated objective measure of the state of psychological function was used to determine the incidence and course of psychological dysfunction in a group of evacuees from Darwin following disaster caused by a cyclone (Cyclone Tracy). While psychological dysfunction was increased initially (58 per cent) and at ten weeks (41 per cent), it had returned to an Australian general population control level (22 per cent) at 14 months. Factors influencing psychological dysfunction were examined, and it is suggested that the sample faced two different stressors at differing times. Initial psychiatric morbidity was most clearly associated with the experience of thinking that one might die or be seriously injured and therefore conceptualized as a ‘mortality stressor’. Psychiatric morbidity at ten weeks appeared to be most closely associated with what has been conceptualized as a ‘relocation stressor’. Reasons why psychiatric morbidity decreased to a general population control level are discussed.