Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1069-1078, November 2009

Serious Emotional Disturbance Among Youths Exposed to Hurricane Katrina 2 Years Postdisaster

Drs. McLaughlin and Kessler, Mr. Gruber, Mr. Lakoma, and Ms. Sampson are with Harvard Medical School; Dr. Fairbank is with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Duke University Medical Center, and the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Durham VA Medical Center; Dr. Jones is with Virginia Tech University; and Dr. Pfefferbaum is with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Accepted 9 July 2009.

Disclosure: Dr. Fairbank has been a consultant for RTI International. Dr. Kessler has been a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Shire Pharmaceuticals, and Wyeth-Ayerst; has served on advisory boards for Eli Lilly & Company and Wyeth-Ayerst; and has had research support for his epidemiological studies from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmith-Kline, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.

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 This study is supported by NIH Research Grants R01 MH070884-01A2 and R01 MH081832 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administration for Children and Families.Supplemental digital content for this article can be found online only. See text for specific links.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60254-9

doi:10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181b76697

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1069-1078, November 2009

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