Special Issue   
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FOLLOWING A DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE 2023: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS
Author(s): Sara Akram*, Saad Shah, Fawad Husain and Hamad Abdulla R A Al-Kubaisi There is little study in Turkey on how a large earthquake affects mental health. Among people who had been impacted by the 7.6-magnitude “Kahramanmaras” earthquake that struck Turkey on February 6, 2023, we sought to examine the factors that were linked to depressive and anxious symptoms. A preliminary cross-sectional examination of the general population was conducted from February 9 th to 1 st March, 2023. An online questionnaire was used as data collection tool that included the (DASS 21). By leveraging logistics regression, researchers tested the relationship between health behavior change aggregate score and depression, stress, and anxiety. Physical earthquake injuries, a little food shortage, and exhaustion were all linked to anxious feelings. Many individual and socioeconomic factors contributed to the emergence of depression, stress and anxiety indicators after the.. Read More» DOI: 10.54615/2231-7805.S5.003

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