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This research was supported by grant 1R01-MH-36230 from the National institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The authors gratefully acknowledge the following persons for their careful review of an earlier version of this manuscript and their useful comments: Daniel Freeman, from Dartmouth Medical School, Susan Solomon, from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bruno Lima, from Johns Hopkins University, Elizabeth Smith, from Washington University in St. Louis, Patrick Shrout, from Columbia University, and Margarita Alegria and Mildred Vera, from the University of Puerto Rico's Public Health School. We also acknowledge Rafael Caraballo and Cruz Maria Lopez, field supervisors, Beatriz Cruz, Jose Martinez, and Tomas Matos, data analysts, and Elizabeth Pastrana, secretary, for their valuable contributions to this work.
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Bravo, M., Rubio-Stipec, M., Canino, G.J. et al. The psychological sequelae of disaster stress prospectively and retrospectively evaluated. Am J Commun Psychol 18, 661–680 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00931236
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