ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2018
Long-term effects of disaster on depressive symptoms: Type of exposure matters.
Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Associations Among Natural Disaster Exposure, Childhood Adversity, and Cognitive Functioning in Older Americans in the Health and Retirement Study.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Exposing the loci of bias: a taxonomical exploration of sources of bias in population mental health research.Population health metrics · 2025Review
- A framework for ageing and health vulnerabilities in a changing climate.Nature climate change · 2024Article
- Disasters and Impacts in Appalachian Kentucky: A Behavioral Health Analysis.Journal of Appalachian health · 2024Article
- Mental health of vulnerable groups experiencing a drought or bushfire: A systematic review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
- Adverse childhood experiences, adult trauma, and depressive symptom trajectories.Aging & mental health · 2022Article
- Long-Term Impact of Hurricane Sandy Exposure on Positive and Negative Affect: The Role of Perceived Social Support.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Assessing short-term and long-term mental health effects among older adults after Hurricane Sandy.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Long term impact of Hurricane Sandy on hospital admissions of older adults.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Peritraumatic Stress From a Disaster Increases Risk for Onset of Chronic Diseases Among Older Adults.Innovation in aging · 2022Article
- Effects of peri-traumatic stress experienced during Hurricane Sandy on functional limitation trajectories for older men and women.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Increased frequency of participation in civic associations and reduced depressive symptoms: Prospective study of older Japanese survivors of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Experienced by Older People: Effects of Time, Hurricane Sandy, and the Great Recession.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Development and Preliminary Italian Validation of the Emergency Response and Psychological Adjustment Scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Causal effect of deteriorating socioeconomic circumstances on new-onset arthritis and the moderating role of access to medical care: A natural experiment from the 2011 great east Japan earthquake and tsunami.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- Type of Disaster Exposure Affects Functional Limitations of Older People 6 Years Later.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Article
- Lessons from Hurricane Katrina for predicting the indirect health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Change in Loneliness Experienced by Older Men and Women Living Alone and With Others at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Research on agingArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
rationaleNatural disasters have the potential to change the lives of older people, yet most studies rely on small convenience samples, few include assessments of people prior to the disaster, and only a handful examine the effects of different types of exposure.
objectiveOur analyses add new knowledge to the literature by examining the ways in which four types of exposure (i.e., geographic, peri-traumatic stress, personal and property loss, and post-storm hardship) affect depressive symptoms experienced by older people over a five-year period.
methodWe analyzed four waves of data from the ORANJ BOWL panel using multilevel mixed effects models.
resultsWe found that although each type of exposure had an independent effect on depressive symptoms, the effects of peri-traumatic stress were dominant.
conclusionsAs nearly 20% of people in the United States will experience a natural disaster during the course of their lives, it is critical to understand how disaster exposure can influence mental health because each type of exposure demands a different response. Finding that an individual's emotional response during the disaster plays an important role in the development of depressive symptoms suggests that reduction of exposure to traumatic stress during a storm (i.e., evacuation from a storm area) is important for older people. Likewise, immediate interventions following a disaster that target people experiencing high levels of peri-traumatic distress may be particularly effective and that failing to attend to these people may miss a critical opportunity and result in years of suffering.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.