Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access

Abstract

Posttraumatic Morbidity Six Years after the Major Disaster Experience during the 2004 Tsunami

Tom Lundin and Kerstin Bergh Johannesson

With the help of personal face-to-face interviews, a study was made of a group of Swedish tsunami survivors (n=21) who were non-bereaved and extremely exposed during the 2004 tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. They all scored high on IES-22R and GHQ-12 three years post-disaster. The morbidity was very low: one survivor met criteria for PTSD and one for major depression.