TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological responses in family members after the Hebron massacre
AU - Elbedour, Salman
AU - Baker, Ahmad
AU - Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera
AU - Irwin, Martin
AU - Belmaker, R. H.
PY - 1999/2/9
Y1 - 1999/2/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Muslim
KW - PTSD
KW - Traumatic bereavement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032948715&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1999)9:1<27::AID-DA4>3.0.CO;2-W
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1999)9:1<27::AID-DA4>3.0.CO;2-W
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032948715
SN - 1091-4269
VL - 9
SP - 27
EP - 31
JO - Depression and Anxiety
JF - Depression and Anxiety
IS - 1
ER -