Two Oklahoma City Disasters: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Tornadoes—A Blood Bank Perspective

Two Oklahoma City disasters: the Oklahoma City bombing and the tornadoes--a blood bank perspective.

Psychiatric disorders among survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing.

CONTEXT Disasters expose unselected populations to traumatic events and can be used to study the mental health effects. The Oklahoma City, Okla, bombing is particularly significant for the study of mental health sequelae of trauma because its extreme magnitude and scope have been predicted to render profound psychiatric effects on survivors. OBJECTIVE To measure the psychiatric impact of the ...

Injury perceptions of bombing survivors--interviews from the Oklahoma City bombing.

INTRODUCTION Bombings, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, remain an important public health threat. However, there has been little investigation into the impressions of injury risk or protective factors of bombing survivors. OBJECTIVE This study analyzes Oklahoma City bombing survivors' impressions of factors that influenced their risk of injury, and validates a hazard timeline outlini...

Coping, functioning, and adjustment of rescue workers after the Oklahoma City bombing.

Studies have not previously considered postdisaster adjustment in the context of psychiatric disorders. After the Oklahoma City bombing, a volunteer sample of 181 firefighters who served as rescue and recovery workers was assessed with a structured diagnostic interview. The firefighters had relatively low rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and described little functional impairment, ...

Personality and Major Depression among Directly Exposed Survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Background. Few disaster studies have specifically examined personality and resilience in association with disaster exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and major depression. Methods. 151 directly-exposed survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing randomly selected from a bombing survivor registry completed PTSD, major depression, and personality assessments using the Diagnostic Intervie...