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  • Title: Psychiatric reactions to disaster: the Mount St. Helens experience.
    Author: Shore JH, Tatum EL, Vollmer WM.
    Journal: Am J Psychiatry; 1986 May; 143(5):590-5. PubMed ID: 3963245.
    Abstract:
    Following the 1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption, psychiatric reactions were studied in the disaster area and in a control community. Using the new criterion-based diagnostic method for psychiatric epidemiologic research, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, the authors found a significant prevalence of disaster-related psychiatric disorders. These Mount St. Helens disorders included depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress reaction. There was a progressive "dose-response" relationship in the comparison of control, low-exposure, and high-exposure groups. The dose-response pattern occurred among both the bereaved and the property-loss victims.
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