ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2014
Multiple vantage points on the mental health effects of mass shootings.
Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06136273 (Penetrating Trauma Registry and Open Source Data), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Penetrating Trauma Registry and Open Source Data
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pre-hospital management of mass casualty civilian shootings: a systematic literature review.Critical care (London, England) · 2016Pooled it
- The mental health sequelae of mass shootings on affected children, adolescents and young adults - a scoping review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Review
- Parental perceptions of child and family mental health and behavioural adjustment following a mass school shooting in Serbia.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Frequency and Predictors of Adolescent Worry for School Gun Violence in the United States: Findings From a Nationally Representative Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2026Article
- Silent echoes: understanding and predicting the widespread mental health impact of mass shootings.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The double burden of stressful life events among professional nurses: public mass shootings during the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Adults in Communities With Mass Violence Incidents.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- US States with poor social health outcomes and more firearms have more morbidity due to mass shootings.Journal of injury & violence research · 2024Article
- Development of a scale examining post-disaster coping motivations in Turkey after the 6 February earthquake.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Article
- The impact of a terrorist attack: Survivors' health, functioning and need for support following the 2019 Utrecht tram shooting 6 and 18 months post-attack.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Adolescents' Concerns About School Violence or Shootings and Association With Depressive, Anxiety, and Panic Symptoms.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Effects of Mass Shootings on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Defining COVID-19 as a Disaster Helps Guide Public Mental Health Policy.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2020Article
- Addressing Mass Shootings in a New Light.Cureus · 2020Review
- UNIFIED: Understanding New Information from Emergency Departments Involved in the San Bernardino Terrorist Attack.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Youth Responses to School Shootings: a Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
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Authors and funding
11 authors.
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Abstract
The phenomenon of mass shootings has emerged over the past 50 years. A high proportion of rampage shootings have occurred in the United States, and secondarily, in European nations with otherwise low firearm homicide rates; yet, paradoxically, shooting massacres are not prominent in the Latin American nations with the highest firearm homicide rates in the world. A review of the scientific literature from 2010 to early 2014 reveals that, at the individual level, mental health effects include psychological distress and clinically significant elevations in posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms in relation to the degree of physical exposure and social proximity to the shooting incident. Psychological repercussions extend to the surrounding affected community. In the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting on record, Norway has been in the vanguard of intervention research focusing on rapid delivery of psychological support and services to survivors of the "Oslo Terror." Grounded on a detailed review of the clinical literature on the mental health effects of mass shootings, this paper also incorporates wide-ranging co-author expertise to delineate: 1) the patterning of mass shootings within the international context of firearm homicides, 2) the effects of shooting rampages on children and adolescents, 3) the psychological effects for wounded victims and the emergency healthcare personnel who care for them, 4) the disaster behavioral health considerations for preparedness and response, and 5) the media "framing" of mass shooting incidents in relation to the portrayal of mental health themes.
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