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April 2004, Vol 94, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 582-585
© 2004 American Public Health Association

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Estimating Capacity Requirements for Mental Health Services After a Disaster Has Occurred: A Call for New Data

Carole E. Siegel, PhD, Eugene Laska, PhD and Morris Meisner, PhD

All of the authors are with the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Carole E. Siegel, PhD, Epidemiology and Health Services Research Laboratory, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Rd, Orangeburg, NY 10962 (e-mail: siegel{at}nki.rfmh.org).

Objectives. We sought to estimate the extended mental health service capacity requirements of persons affected by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Methods. We developed a formula to estimate the extended mental health service capacity requirements following disaster situations and assessed availability of the information required by the formula.

Results. Sparse data exist on current services and supports used by people with mental health problems outside of the formal mental health specialty sector. There also are few systematically collected data on mental health sequelae of disasters.

Conclusions. We recommend research-based surveys to understand service usage in non–mental health settings and suggest that federal guidelines be established to promote uniform data collection of a core set of items in studies carried out after disasters.




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