Research Summary: Television Exposure in Children after a Terrorist Incident

By Stephen E. Brock, Ph.D., NCSP California State University, Sacramento CASP Region X Representative

In the Fall of 2001, the journal Psychiatry published a study examining the relationship between amount of television exposure to a disaster and the presence of posttraumatic stress reactions among a group of school children (Pefferbaum, 2001).

Participants in this survey research were 2,318 middle school students from 11 schools within the Oklahoma City Public Schools. This number represented approximately one-third of the total number of students enrolled in these schools. Principals distributed surveys to teachers, individual teachers made the decision regarding classroom participation, and individual

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