ArticleThe Science of the total environment2022
Understanding the concurrent risk of mental health and dangerous wildfire events in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- The Mental Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Evidence.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Temporal dynamics of teen crisis help-seeking following hurricanes: A structural topic model analysis.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Compounding Disasters and Australian Youth Mental Health: A Time of Significant (di)stress.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Short-term changes in mental health help-seeking behaviors following exposure to multiple social stressors and a natural disaster.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
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- The influence of natural disasters and multiple natural disasters on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: findings from a nationally representative cohort study of Australian adolescents.SSM - population health · 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
- Cascading disasters and mental health: The February 2021 winter storm and power crisis in Texas, USA.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Examining Hurricane Ida's Impact on Mental Health: Results From a Quasi-Experimental Analysis.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Eco-anxiety, climate concern, and fatalistic outlooks: Insights from U.S. crisis text conversations on climate distress.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
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Abstract
Little research has examined the mental health risks of concurrent disasters. For example, disasters like wildfires have been shown to have a strong association with psychological symptoms-the 2020 U.S. Western wildfire season was the worst on record and occurred while the country was still navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. We implemented two quasi-experimental analyses, an interrupted time series analysis, and a difference-in-difference analysis to evaluate the impacts of wildfires and COVID-19 on mental health crisis help-seeking patterns. Both methods showed no statistical association between exposure to wildfires and the seeking of mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results highlighted that 2020 wildfires were not associated with an acute increase in crisis texts for youth in the two months after the events, likely due to an already elevated text volume in response to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 throughout the fall wildfire season (Aug to Oct 2020). Future research is needed outside of the context of the pandemic to understand the effects of extreme and concurrent climatic events on adolescent mental health, and targeted interventions are required to ensure youth and adolescents are receiving adequate support during these types of crisis events.
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