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Psychological responses in family members after the Hebron massacre
Author(s) -
Elbedour Salman,
Baker Ahmad,
ShalhoubKevorkian Nadera,
Irwin Martin,
Belmaker R.H.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6394(1999)9:1<27::aid-da4>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - admiration , tragedy (event) , psychology , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , psychiatry , poison control , medicine , social psychology , medical emergency
The authors attempted to determine the frequency of severe psychological responses in surviving family members in a religious Muslim culture. Twenty‐three wives, twelve daughters and twenty‐six sons of heads of households massacred while praying in the Hebron mosque on 25 February 1994 were interviewed with the clinician‐administered PTSD scale; 50% of daughters, 39% of wives, and 23% of sons met criteria for PTSD. PTSD or traumatic bereavement occurs with high frequency after a major tragedy in a Moslem society, despite religious admiration of dead martyrs. Depression and Anxiety 9:27–31, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.