Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To study the relationship of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to severity of the disaster experience.
METHOD:
A sample of 1785 adult participants of an epidemiological study initiated in the immediate aftermath of the 1988 earthquake in Armenia were interviewed about 2 years following the disaster based on the NIMH DIS-Disaster Supplement. All 154 cases of pure PTSD were compared with 583 controls without symptoms satisfying psychiatric diagnoses of interest.
RESULTS: