Trajectories of distress and recovery, secondary stressors and social cure processes in people who used the resilience hub after the Manchester Arena bombing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Terrorist incidents lead to a range of mental health outcomes for people affected, sometimes extending years after the event. Secondary stressors can exacerbate them, and social support can provide mitigation and aid recovery. There is a need to better understand distress and mitigating factors among survivors of the Manchester Arena attack in 2017.

Aims

We explored three questions. First, what experiences of distress did participants report? Second, how might secondary stressors have influenced participants' psychosocial recoveries? Third, what part has social support played in the relationships between distress and participants' recovery trajectories?

Method

We conducted a cross-sectional online survey of a convenience sample of survivors of the Mancheste

SUBMITTER: Stancombe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10594089 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature