ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Long-Term Mental Health Effects of a Devastating Wildfire Are Amplified by Socio-Demographic and Clinical Antecedents in Elementary and High School Staff.
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- The Mental Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Evidence.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Acute Mental Health Impacts and Mid-Term Symptom Trajectories Following Wildfire Exposure.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Evaluating participants' satisfaction with supportive text message interventions during the 2023 wildfires and the impact of age and gender on overall satisfaction scores.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD Among Southern California Residents After the January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2025Article
- Development of a questionnaire library for rapid health data acquisition during wildfire events.MethodsX · 2025Article
- Impact of Natural Disasters on Mental Health: Evidence and Implications.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Effect of wildfire on the prevalence of opioid misuse through anxiety among young adults in the United States: a modeling study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- 2023 Wildfires in Canada: Living in Wildfire Regions in Alberta and Nova Scotia Doubled the Odds for Residents to Experience Likely Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Devastating Wildfires and Mental Health: Major Depressive Disorder Prevalence and Associated Factors among Residents in Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canada.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mitigating Psychological Problems Associated with the 2023 Wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia: Six-Week Outcomes from the Text4Hope Program.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- Exploring the prevalence and predictors of low resilience and likely PTSD in residents of two provinces in Canada during the 2023 wildfires.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Evaluating the 3-month post-intervention impact of a supportive text message program on mental health outcomes during the 2023 wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canada.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Investigating the Health Impacts of Climate Change among People with Pre-Existing Mental Health Problems: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Healthcare Impacts Associated with Federally Declared Disasters-Hurricanes Gustave and Ike.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Psychosocial resources underlying disaster survivors' posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories: insight from in-depth interviews with mothers who survived Hurricane Katrina.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Evaluating Community Resilience and Associated Factors One Year after the Catastrophic Fort McMurray Flood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Compound Risk of Air Pollution and Heat Days and the Influence of Wildfire by SES across California, 2018-2020: Implications for Environmental Justice in the Context of Climate Change.Climate (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and Wildfires: A Fifth-Year Postdisaster Evaluation among Residents of Fort McMurray.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluating the Prevalence and Predictors of Moderate to Severe Depression in Fort McMurray, Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess the likely prevalence rates of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in staff of Fort McMurray School Districts eighteen months after a May 2016 wildfire, and to determine possible predictors.
methodsA quantitative cross-sectional survey was used to collect data through self-administered online questionnaires to determine likely MDD, GAD and PTSD using well validated self-report questionnaires.
resultsOf 1,446 staff who were sent the online survey link in an e-mail, 197 completed the survey, of which there were 168 females (85%) and 29 males (15%). The one-month prevalence rates for likely MDD, GAD and PTSD among the school staff were 18.3, 15.7 and 10.2% respectively. There were statistically significant associations between multiple socio-demographic and clinical variables likely MDD, GAD and PTSD among respondents.
conclusionKnowledge of key factors for MDD, GAD and PTSD may be helpful for policy makers when formulating population level social and clinical programs, to mitigate the mental health effects of future natural disasters.
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