A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Workplace Issues, Authorities and Media, and Relationships Recounted by Oklahoma City Bombing Survivors After Nearly a Quarter Century.
Journal
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
ISSN: 1536-5948
Titre abrégé: J Occup Environ Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9504688
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 11 2022
01 11 2022
Historique:
pubmed:
23
8
2022
medline:
9
11
2022
entrez:
22
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of the study is to examine the long-term course of disaster-related experience among survivors of a terrorist bombing and the long-term recollection of initial workplace effects across nearly a quarter century. From an initial randomly selected sample of highly trauma-exposed survivors of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 103 participated in qualitative open-ended interviews about their bombing experience approximately 23 years after disaster. The survivors described their bombing experience clearly with extensive detail and expression of persistent strong emotion. Their discussions reflected findings from earlier assessments and also continued over the course of the next decades to complete their stories of the course of their occupational and interpersonal postdisaster journeys. Long-term psychosocial ramifications in these survivors' lives continue to warrant psychosocial interventions, such as occupational and interpersonal counseling.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35993608
doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002681
pii: 00043764-202211000-00021
pmc: PMC9637684
mid: NIHMS1829954
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e722-e728Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01 MH040025
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflicts of interest: None declared.
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