Survivors of the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster: long-term follow-up study

Hull, Alastair; M. Alexander, D.; Klein, Susan

doi:10.1192/bjp.181.5.433

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Survivors of the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster: long-term follow-up study

Published in The British Journal of Psychiatry • Oct 31, 2002

Authors:

Alastair Hull

D. M. Alexander

Susan Klein

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The long-term psychological effects of surviving a major disaster are poorly understood. We undertook a survey of survivors of the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster (1988). AIMS: To examine the role of factors relating to the trauma, the survivors and the survivors' circumstances. METHOD...

Subject

Traumatic stress

Medicine

Psychiatry

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