ISRAELI REACTIONS TO SCUD ATTACKS DURING THE GULF WAR

以色列对海湾战争期间飞毛腿袭击的反应

• 批准号: 3390093
• 负责人: BRUCE P DOHRENWEND
• 金额: $ 11.07万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-08-01 至 1995-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3390093
• 关键词: Israel; coping; disease /disorder proneness /risk; female; gender difference; human data; longitudinal human study; male; mental disorders; mental health epidemiology; personality; posttraumatic stress disorder; psychological shock; racial /ethnic difference; social support network; socioeconomics; stress; stressor; war /peace

The bombing of the Israeli civilian population during the Persian Gulf War offered a unique and important research opportunity to study effects of a life-threatening experience on a sample of Israel-born adults on whom we have detailed pre-war baseline data. These pre-war data were collected in a case/control study of life events and other possible risk factors for psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia, major depression, antisocial personality and substance use, including alcoholism. Under a small grant from the NIMH RAPID program, we took the first step to seize this opportunity. We collected post-war data that included not only assessments of psychological distress and symptoms of PTSD, but also extensive measures of the stress process. The respondents were 650 people from our original sample. The interviewing began on March 20, 1991, 3 weeks after the bombing threat ended, and continued for the following year. The RAPID grant provided funds for data collection only. The present application is for funds to analyze the data. Our aims in these analyses are to: 1) examine the relationship between objective threat (e.g., residence in targeted and bombed areas) and distress (e.g., demoralization and symptoms of PTSD); 2) test whether the relationships among stress, social situations, personal disposition, and psychopathology in our baseline study of more usual stressors are replicated in a situation of abnormal life threatening stress and, 3) address with prospective analyses questions raised but unresolved with the retrospective data from the baseline case/control study. Our longer term goal is to conduct further follow-up interviews that will be informed by the results of analyses proposed here. This longer term follow-up would involve clinical diagnoses by psychiatrists as in the original baseline study. This would enable us to investigate not only how past social, psychological and psychiatric factors affect immediate responses to a life-threatening experience, but also how such responses, in turn, are related to the future course and development of psychiatric disorders.

波斯湾战争期间对以色列平民的轰炸 提供了一个独特而重要的研究机会来研究 关于以色列出生的成年人的危及生命的经历 有详细的战前基线数据。这些战前数据是在 一项生活事件和其他可能的危险因素的病例/对照研究 精神障碍，特别是精神分裂症，严重的抑郁症， 反社会人格和药物使用，包括酗酒。 在NIMH快速计划的一小笔赠款下，我们迈出了第一步 抓住这个机会。我们收集了战后数据，不仅包括 心理痛苦和创伤后应激障碍症状的评估，但也 压力过程的广泛措施。受访者为650人。 取自我们最初的样品。面试于1991年3月20日开始。 爆炸威胁结束几周后，并在接下来的时间里继续 年。 快速赠款仅为数据收集提供资金。现在 应用程序是为基金分析数据。我们这些分析的目的 目的是：1)检查客观威胁(例如， 居住在目标和被轰炸的地区)和痛苦(例如，士气低落 和创伤后应激障碍的症状)；2)测试应激、 社会状况、个人性格和精神病理学 对更常见的压力源的基线研究在以下情况下重复 异常的威胁生命的压力和，3)通过前瞻性分析解决 提出的问题，但尚未解决的追溯数据来自 基线病例/对照研究。 我们的长期目标是进行进一步的后续采访， 从这里建议的分析结果中获得信息。这一较长期的 后续将包括精神科医生的临床诊断，如 原始基线研究。这将使我们不仅能够调查 过去的社会、心理和精神因素会影响即刻 对危及生命的经历的反应，以及这种反应是如何， 反过来又关系到精神病学的未来进程和发展 精神错乱。