Children's Well-Being 11 Years After the Chornobyl Catastrophe

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• Evelyn Bromet; Dmitry Goldgaber; Gabrielle Carlson; Natalia Panina; Evgenii Golovakha; Semyon Gluzman; Thomas Gilbert; Daniil Gluzman; Sergey Lyubsky; Joseph Schwartz
PMID: 10839334DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.57.6.563

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This article is about a study on children who were evacuated from the Chornobyl disaster area to Kyiv. It describes how, 11 years later, these children and their classmates had similar mental health except for anxiety related to Chornobyl and school performance. Mothers of evacuees saw their children's well-being as worse, especially with physical symptoms. The main reasons for this were mothers' stress and worries about Chornobyl. Despite the trauma faced by families, children's self-reports showed protective factors in their lives that helped them cope better than expected.

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Focus Areas: CBRNE; Mental Health

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Recovery

Keywords: Child; Radiation Exposure; Maternal Behavior; Mental Health; Mothers; Stress, Psychological; Ukraine; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; Radiation Effects

Institutions: University of New York at Stony Brook

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