A longitudinal investigation of mental health outcomes after the Henan floods in China: Examining predictors of resilience trajectories.

ABSTRACT: A heavy rainstorm struck Henan, China, in July 2021. Previous studies have indicated that natural disasters have a wide range of psychological sequelae, but little research has been done on the psychological effects of floods specifically. This study aimed to track the mental health trajectories of flood victims over time and identify associated protective and risk factors. People living in the areas most impacted by the flood (N = 376) were surveyed at four different time points: 3 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months post-flood. Latent growth mixture modeling was utilized to delineate longitudinal patterns of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator logistic regression, a supervised machine-learning approach, was emp

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11608771 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature