Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Developed By One In Eight World Trade Center Rescue And Recovery Workers

September 3, 2007 – 10:18 pm | posted in Psychology / Psychiatry

Thousands of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers were still suffering serious mental health effects three years after the disaster, the Health Department reports. New findings released from the World Trade Center Health Registry show that one in eight rescue and recovery workers (12.4%) likely had post-traumatic stress disorder when they were interviewed in 2003 and 2004. The findings were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, available online at http://www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org/ (direct link:

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