ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Longitudinal Change of PTSD Symptoms in Community Members after the World Trade Center Destruction.
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- The long shadow of 9/11: Mental health outcomes in adult children of World Trade Center Responders with PTSD.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Association between World Trade Center disaster exposures and body mass index in community members enrolled at World Trade Center Environmental Health Center.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2025Article
- Characteristics of survivors enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program.Archives of environmental & occupational health · 2024Article
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Mediates the Association between Traumatic World Trade Center Dust Cloud Exposure and Ongoing Systemic Inflammation in Community Members.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Molecular Clustering Analysis of Blood Biomarkers in World Trade Center Exposed Community Members with Persistent Lower Respiratory Symptoms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- COPD in Smoking and Non-Smoking Community Members Exposed to the World Trade Center Dust and Fumes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Cognitive Function among World Trade Center-Exposed Community Members with Mental Health Symptoms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Anxiety, Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder after Terrorist Attacks: A General Review of the Literature.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Lung Cancer Characteristics in the World Trade Center Environmental Health Center.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Development of a WTC Environmental Health Center Pan-Cancer Database.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Survivors of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Attacks: A Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Editorial for "Long-Term Health Effects of the 9/11 Disaster" inInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
The World Trade Center (WTC) Environmental Health Center (EHC) is a treatment program for community members with exposure to the 9/11 terrorist attack and its physical and emotional aftermath. Compared to the general responders program, the WTC EHC is diverse with equal gender distribution, representation of many races and ethnicities, and a wide range of social economic status. Patients in the WTC EHC were initially enrolled for physical symptoms, most of which were respiratory, however a large portion of the enrollees scored positive for probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this paper we identify patient characteristics associated with probable PTSD. We also determine the characteristics associated with the longitudinal change of PTSD symptoms, including persistence and remittance, using the widely used Posttraumatic Check List-17 (PCL) cut-off value of 44, as well as changes in PCL total score and symptom cluster scores in patients of Low and High PTSD symptom severity. Few patients with elevated scores achieved a score below 44. However, longitudinal improvement in PCL score at follow-up was identified for patients with High PTSD scores (PCL > 57.5). Changes in PCL symptom clusters differed between those with High and Low PCL scores. These data suggest improvement over time in PCL score that differs depending on the severity of the score and variable responses in the PCL symptom clusters.
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