ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN HURRICANE-RELATED STRESSORS AND PERCEIVED STRESS IN A SAMPLE OF PUERTO RICANS
Erin Ballard, Victoria Guinn, Sheila Thompson, Ross Andel, Lisa Brown, Michael Crowe · 2023
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Erin Ballard and her five co-authors, publishing in 2023, study the long shadow of Hurricane Maria on older Puerto Ricans. The data come from a long-running health study of the island's elders. The 617 participants were all 78 or older. They were interviewed in 2021 and 2022, years after the storm. The team asked about fright during the hurricane and about later worries, over home damage, family and friends, and work and health.
About 41 percent said they had been somewhat or very frightened right after the storm. Over half faced home repairs, neighborhood damage, or trouble paying bills. Fright at the time was tied to higher stress years later. So were all three kinds of later worry. Women reported higher stress in every model. The authors argue a disaster's mental toll does not fade when the skies clear, and support should plan for years, not months.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Erin Ballard, Victoria Guinn, Sheila Thompson, Ross Andel, Lisa Brown, Michael Crowe |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |