Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents one year after a super-cyclone in Orissa, India: exploring cross-cultural validity and vulnerability factors

Nilamadhab Kar; Prasanta Kumar Mohapatra; Kailash C Nayak; Pratiti Pattanaik; Sarada Prasanna Swain; Harish C Kar

doi:10.1186/1471-244x-7-8

February 14, 2007BMC PsychiatryOpen Access

Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents one year after a super-cyclone in Orissa, India: exploring cross-cultural validity and vulnerability factors

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To evaluate the cross-cultural clinical validity and vulnerability factors of post-traumatic stress disorder in youth one year following a super-cyclone.
Assessed children and adolescents in Orissa, India, one year after exposure to a super-cyclone.
Evaluated post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, risk factors, and construct validity within the local cultural setting.
Post-traumatic stress disorder proved to be a clinically valid construct with high prevalence among cyclone-exposed youth.
Symptom manifestations and associated vulnerability factors closely paralleled patterns documented in other cultural populations.
Trauma-related morbidity often remains undetected without systematic clinical screening.

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Observational study reveals high post-traumatic stress disorder prevalence in disaster-exposed youth, highlighting the necessity of routine clinical screening.

Abstract

Following natural disaster PTSD is a valid clinical construct in children and adolescents in Indian set up; and though highly prevalent it may be missed without clinical screening. Its manifestation and associated factors resembled those in other cultures.

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Kar et al. (2007) studied this question.

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