ArticlePreventive medicine2022
Wildfire smoke and symptoms affecting mental health among adults in the U.S. state of Oregon.
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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
- The Effect of Wildfire Exposure: Neurological Outcomes, Mental Health, and Epigenetic Insights.Genes · 2026Review
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- Prenatal Exposure to Wildfire and Autism in Children.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Association between wildfire smoke exposure and parents' adoption of protective behaviours: Exploring the role of objective and subjective smoke exposure.Environmental challenges (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Development of a questionnaire library for rapid health data acquisition during wildfire events.MethodsX · 2025Article
- Fine Particulate Matter From 2020 California Wildfires and Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Wildfires are associated with increased emergency department visits for anxiety disorders in the western United States.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- Psychotropic Medication Prescriptions and Large California Wildfires.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- PMGeoHealth · 2024Article
- Environmental pollution and extreme weather conditions: insights into the effect on mental health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- The Impact of Climate Change on Asthma and Allergic-Immunologic Disease.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023Review
- Adaptation Resources and Responses to Wildfire Smoke and Other Forms of Air Pollution in Low-Income Urban Settings: A Mixed-Methods Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The physical and mental health impacts of wildfires are wide-ranging. We assessed associations between exposure to wildfire smoke and self-reported symptoms affecting mental health among adults living in Oregon. We linked by interview date and county of residence survey responses from 5807 adults who responded to the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System's depression and anxiety module with smoke plume density, a proxy for wildfires and wildfire smoke exposure. Associations between weeks in the past year with medium and heavy smoke plume densities and symptoms affecting mental health during the two weeks before the interview date were estimated using predicted marginal probabilities from logistic regression models. In the year before completing the interview, 100% of respondents experienced ≥2 weeks of medium or heavy smoke, with an average exposure duration of 32 days. Nearly 10% reported being unable to stop or control their worrying more than half the time over the past two weeks. Medium or heavy smoke for 6 or more weeks in the past year, compared to ≤4 weeks in the past year, was associated with a 30% higher prevalence of being unable to stop or control worrying more than half the time during the past two weeks (prevalence ratio: 1.30, 95% confidence interval: 1.03, 1.65). Among adults in Oregon, selected symptoms affecting mental health were associated with extended durations of medium and heavy smoke. These findings highlight the burden of such symptoms among adults living in communities affected by wildfires and wildfire smoke.
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