Mental Health Service Need and Use Among Youth Exposed to the WTC Attack

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• Personal Author:
  Duarte C ; Hoven CW ; Musa G
• Description:
  Although more than a decade has passed since the WTC attack, its lasting effect on the mental health of thousands of individuals remains constant. Although major efforts were made in the identification and treatment of mental health problems among adults who were exposed to the WTC attack, other than school programs much less was done for those children who were exposed to this massive traumatic event. Given the fact that exposure to trauma early in life potentially has a significant long-term, impact on a person's life, the need to better understand the service needs of youth is critical. In response to the program announcement from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), entitled "Cooperative Research. Agreements Related to the World- Trade Center Health Program (U01)" the study examined mental health service needs, and use among youth who were exposed to the WTC attack during their childhood. Two groups of youth, those who were directly exposed to the WTC attack during their childhood, and those whose parents were directly exposed to the WTC attack, were analyzed. The study included data from two unique samples: 1) 2,625 youth who were exposed to the WTC attack during their childhood and participated World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) survey, and 2) 855 youth whose parents were exposed to the WTC attack and who, therefore, were indirectly exposed to the WTC attack through their parents. This later sample was drawn from the Parental, Experiences and Children's Well-Being" (PECWB) Study, a sample recruited from information provided by the WTCHR. The project assessed mental health service need, use and barriers to access to mental health- services of the youth by identifying factors associated with their mental health service utilization, including predisposing and enabling factors at the individual, family, school and community levels. The shady also examined the impact of parental exposure to the WTC attack, parental psychopathology and .parental help seeking behaviors on their children's patterns of mental health service utilization; and developed and tested a model of adolescent mental health service utilization after the WTC attack. This study was conceived and designed so that the findings would provide valuable information to clinicians and policy makers for improving the delivery of mental health treatment to those in need, both for this 9/11 population and those exposed to other, subsequent disasters. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Men Mental Health Occupational Health Pathology Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Children Exposure-levels Humans Mental-health Psychological-effects Psychological-factors Psychological-reactions Psychological-responses Psychology Risk-factors Traumatic-injuries Treatment

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047430
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2016-102824
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U01-OH-010413, 2015 Dec; :1-12
• Email:
  hoven@nyspi.columbia.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20120901
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20150831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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