Psychological Responses among Humidifier Disinfectant Disaster Victims and Their Families

To substantiate psychological symptoms following humidifier disinfectant (HD) disasters, counseling records of 26 victims and 92 family members of victims (45 were bereaved) were analyzed retrospectively. Among the victims, 34.6% had Clinical Global Impression-Severity scores of over 4, which meant...

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Autores principales: Yoo, Seonyoung, Sim, Minyoung, Choi, Jungwon, Jeon, Kyoungsun, Shin, Jungha, Chung, Seockhoon, Hong, Sang-Bum, Lee, So-Yeon, Hong, Soo-Jong
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Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30686951
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e29
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author Yoo, Seonyoung
Sim, Minyoung
Choi, Jungwon
Jeon, Kyoungsun
Shin, Jungha
Chung, Seockhoon
Hong, Sang-Bum
Lee, So-Yeon
Hong, Soo-Jong
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Sim, Minyoung
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Jeon, Kyoungsun
Shin, Jungha
Chung, Seockhoon
Hong, Sang-Bum
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description To substantiate psychological symptoms following humidifier disinfectant (HD) disasters, counseling records of 26 victims and 92 family members of victims (45 were bereaved) were analyzed retrospectively. Among the victims, 34.6% had Clinical Global Impression-Severity scores of over 4, which meant they were moderately ill. While anxiety/fear and depression with respiratory symptoms were frequently observed in victims and family members, chronic psychological distress such as alcohol/smoking abuse and insomnia was relatively high in bereaved family members. In conclusion, it is important to provide mental health support for victims and their families, focusing on the characteristic symptoms of each group as well as monetary compensation.
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spelling pubmed-63456392019-01-28 Psychological Responses among Humidifier Disinfectant Disaster Victims and Their Families Yoo, Seonyoung Sim, Minyoung Choi, Jungwon Jeon, Kyoungsun Shin, Jungha Chung, Seockhoon Hong, Sang-Bum Lee, So-Yeon Hong, Soo-Jong J Korean Med Sci Brief Communication To substantiate psychological symptoms following humidifier disinfectant (HD) disasters, counseling records of 26 victims and 92 family members of victims (45 were bereaved) were analyzed retrospectively. Among the victims, 34.6% had Clinical Global Impression-Severity scores of over 4, which meant they were moderately ill. While anxiety/fear and depression with respiratory symptoms were frequently observed in victims and family members, chronic psychological distress such as alcohol/smoking abuse and insomnia was relatively high in bereaved family members. In conclusion, it is important to provide mental health support for victims and their families, focusing on the characteristic symptoms of each group as well as monetary compensation. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6345639/ /pubmed/30686951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e29 Text en © 2019 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hong, Sang-Bum
Lee, So-Yeon
Hong, Soo-Jong
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title_sort psychological responses among humidifier disinfectant disaster victims and their families
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