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Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina

Some communities recover more quickly after a disaster than others. Some differentials in recovery are explained by variation in the level of disaster-related community damage and differences in pre-disaster community characteristics, e.g., the quality of housing stock. But distinct communities that...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Mengxi, VanLandingham, Mark, Park, Yoon Soo, Anglewicz, Philip, Abramson, David M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34432809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255303
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author Zhang, Mengxi
VanLandingham, Mark
Park, Yoon Soo
Anglewicz, Philip
Abramson, David M.
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Park, Yoon Soo
Anglewicz, Philip
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description Some communities recover more quickly after a disaster than others. Some differentials in recovery are explained by variation in the level of disaster-related community damage and differences in pre-disaster community characteristics, e.g., the quality of housing stock. But distinct communities that are similar on the above characteristics may experience different recovery trajectories, and, if so, these different trajectories must be due to more subtle differences among them. Our principal objective is to assess short-term and long-term post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese and African Americans living in two adjacent communities in eastern New Orleans that were similarly flooded by Hurricane Katrina. We employ data from two population-based cohort studies that include a sample of African American adults (the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health [GCAFH study]) and a sample of Vietnamese American adults (Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans [KATIVA NOLA study]) living in adjacent neighborhoods in eastern New Orleans who were assessed near the second and thirteenth anniversaries of the disaster. Using the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12) as the basis of our outcome measure, we find in multivariate analysis a significant advantage in post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese Americans over their African American counterparts at the two-year mark, but that this advantage had disappeared by the thirteenth anniversary of the Katrina disaster.
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spelling pubmed-83868862021-08-26 Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina Zhang, Mengxi VanLandingham, Mark Park, Yoon Soo Anglewicz, Philip Abramson, David M. PLoS One Research Article Some communities recover more quickly after a disaster than others. Some differentials in recovery are explained by variation in the level of disaster-related community damage and differences in pre-disaster community characteristics, e.g., the quality of housing stock. But distinct communities that are similar on the above characteristics may experience different recovery trajectories, and, if so, these different trajectories must be due to more subtle differences among them. Our principal objective is to assess short-term and long-term post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese and African Americans living in two adjacent communities in eastern New Orleans that were similarly flooded by Hurricane Katrina. We employ data from two population-based cohort studies that include a sample of African American adults (the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health [GCAFH study]) and a sample of Vietnamese American adults (Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans [KATIVA NOLA study]) living in adjacent neighborhoods in eastern New Orleans who were assessed near the second and thirteenth anniversaries of the disaster. Using the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12) as the basis of our outcome measure, we find in multivariate analysis a significant advantage in post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese Americans over their African American counterparts at the two-year mark, but that this advantage had disappeared by the thirteenth anniversary of the Katrina disaster. Public Library of Science 2021-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8386886/ /pubmed/34432809 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255303 Text en © 2021 Zhang et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Park, Yoon Soo
Anglewicz, Philip
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Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina
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title_fullStr Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina
title_full_unstemmed Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina
title_short Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina
title_sort differences in post-disaster mental health among vietnamese and african americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by katrina
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34432809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255303
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