Acute Mental Health Impacts and Mid-Term Symptom Trajectories Following Wildfire Exposure
Lusine Gigoyan, Michelle L. Dossett, Kathryn C. Conlon, Shuai Chen, Sean M. Raffuse, Irva Hertz-Picciotto · 2026
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Gigoyan and colleagues tracked mental health after wildfire exposure in 2026, following 4,346 survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California. Survivors reported their symptoms as they recalled them at three weeks, one month, three months, and six months after the fire.
Forty-one percent reported one or more mental health symptoms three weeks after the fire. Symptoms eased over time, falling from nearly four symptoms on average to under three by six months. Among those with symptoms, severe home damage was linked with about 1.6 times as many symptoms, and prior mental health conditions and job loss also raised counts. The authors urge early mental health services after fires, aimed first at those with the heaviest losses.
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| CREATOR | Lusine Gigoyan, Michelle L. Dossett, Kathryn C. Conlon, Shuai Chen, Sean M. Raffuse, Irva Hertz-Picciotto |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |