caa a22 4500 467936536 CHVBK 20180406152959.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11069-005-4671-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11069-005-4671-y Changes of PTSD Symptoms and School Reconstruction: A Two-year Prospective Study of Children and Adolescents after the Taiwan 921 Earthquake [Elektronische Daten] [S.-H. Chen, Y.-C. Wu] Children and adolescents living in earthquake impacted areas may present various post-traumatic responses and adjustment along the post-traumatic reconstructive phases. Their surrounding environmental damage and reconstructive conditions may influence their adjustment as well. As part of a prospective and longitudinal research project aims to investigate the range and severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in children and adolescents residing near the epicenter after the Taiwan 921 Earthquake, this paper reports the changes of PTSD symptoms over a 2-year period. The study also examines the effects of school damage and reconstructive condition on PTSD symptoms. Earthquake Exposure Index for Youths and Child Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index were administered to 2,028 and 2,077 youths at the first and second year, respectively, from two heavily impacted townships. Given that location, gender, individual and dwelling trauma exposure dose effect were controlled through a balanced sampling procedure and prior statistical confirmation, post-traumatic phase and school damage condition yield significant main effects. Students from the heavily damaged schools consistently displayed significantly more PTSD symptoms, including re-experiencing/avoidance and numbness/maladaptive symptoms, than their counterparts at the first and second year. Decline of prevalence of PTSD symptoms was noted from the first year to the second. Accordingly, there may be a need to implement a broad disaster recovery project with periodic screenings as well as school-specific and school-based mental health program. Springer, 2006 PTSD symptoms nationallicence school reconstruction nationallicence Taiwan 921 Earthquake nationallicence post-traumatic phase nationallicence children and adolescents nationallicence Chen S.-H Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut Wu Y.-C Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 37/1-2(2006-02-01), 225-244 0921-030X 37:1-2<225 2006 37 11069 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-4671-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-4671-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chen S.-H Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wu Y.-C Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, 106, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 37/1-2(2006-02-01), 225-244 0921-030X 37:1-2<225 2006 37 11069 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer