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Post-Traumatic Stress among Evacuees from the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfires: Exploration of Psychological and Sleep Symptoms Three Months after the Evacuation

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Genevieve Belleville
*,
Marie-Christine Ouellet
and
Charles M. Morin
School of Psychology, Laval University, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(9), 1604; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091604
Received: 25 February 2019 / Revised: 25 April 2019 / Accepted: 3 May 2019 / Published: 8 May 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health-Related Emergency Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM))
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This study documents post-traumatic stress symptoms after the May 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray (Alberta, Canada). A sample of 379 evacuees completed an online questionnaire from July to September 2016, and a subsample of 55 completed a psychiatric/psychological diagnostic interview. According to a self-report questionnaire, 62.5% of respondents had a provisional post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The interview confirmed that 29.1% met criteria for PTSD, 25.5% for depression, and 43.6% for insomnia; in most cases, insomnia was definitely or probably related to the fires. Traumatic exposure may elicit or exacerbate sleep problems, which are closely associated with PTSD after a disaster. View Full-Text
Keywords: post-traumatic stress disorder; psychological distress; mental health; sleep post-traumatic stress disorder; psychological distress; mental health; sleep
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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Belleville, G.; Ouellet, M.-C.; Morin, C.M. Post-Traumatic Stress among Evacuees from the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfires: Exploration of Psychological and Sleep Symptoms Three Months after the Evacuation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 1604. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091604

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Belleville G, Ouellet M-C, Morin CM. Post-Traumatic Stress among Evacuees from the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfires: Exploration of Psychological and Sleep Symptoms Three Months after the Evacuation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(9):1604. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091604

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Belleville, Genevieve; Ouellet, Marie-Christine; Morin, Charles M. 2019. "Post-Traumatic Stress among Evacuees from the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfires: Exploration of Psychological and Sleep Symptoms Three Months after the Evacuation" Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 16, no. 9: 1604. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091604

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