Ethnicity, Culture, and Disaster Response: Identifying and Explaining Ethnic Differences in PTSD Six Months After Hurricane Andrew

By J. Perilla, F. Norris, Evelyn A. Lavizzo. 2002

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Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury (2007, background): “Perilla, Norris, and Lavizzo (2002) studied a racially diverse sample of adults 6 months after Hurricane Andrew struck southern Florida in 1992.”
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Ethnoracial Minorities in the United States (2008, background): “Some Latinos may incorporate religious or fatalistic beliefs into their coping with traumatic events (Perilla et al., 2002).”
Racism and Ethnoviolence as Trauma: Enhancing Professional Training (2010, neutral): “experience fewer such traumatic events than White people (Perilla et al., 2002), but racial and ethnic cultural traumas are not ordinarily included in such analyses.”
Threat, Anxiety, and Support of Antiterrorism Policies (2005, background): “…likelihood of a terrorist attack and personal victimization (Edwards 1983), and lower levels of education are associated with greater life stressors which reduce a sense of control and heighten responses to threatening events (Fischhoff et al. 2003; Perilla, Norris, and Lavizzo 2002; Vaughan 1993).”
Methods for disaster mental health research (2006, background): “Despite a few exceptions, most disaster studies that have examined the effects of ethnicity on outcomes have found that specific minority ethnic groups fare worse than persons who are of majority group status (e.g., Galea et al., 2002; Green et al., 1990; March, Amaya-Jackson, Terry, & Costanzo, 199”
What predicts psychological resilience after disaster? The role of demographics, resources, and life stress. (2007, result): “Differences in mental health outcomes among Whites, African Americans, and Hispanics following a community disaster.”
The epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder after disasters. (2005, background): “Black, 135 White) from 5 neighborhoods in Dade county, Florida; N=404; (153)** Mississippi Scale; caseness required meeting DSM-IV criteria for PTSD 23% among African Americans, 19% among English-preferring Latinos, 15% among Whites); ethnic differences in PTSD prevalence remained in the highly trau”