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Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, avalanches, cyclone, tsunami, and landslides can be causation of voluminous destruction to life and property, which affect umpteen people. Disasters are feasible to cause the Posttraumatic disorders which could be short-term or may be long-term for someone. Experiencing a baleful natural disaster such as the recent earthquake that flogged Nepal, which has asserted more than 4500 lives and injured numerous, is nightmare for the victims, and its impact could be long lasting and tormenting. Therefore, it is essential to indulge the victims in the ways to mentally cope with the circumstance by adjuvant them with rapid repercussion, instructing them effective coping strategies and helping them to understand the disaster itself in the natural ways.
Study shows that people who have lost their amorous one and wealth are possibly to suffer from significant severe psychological disorders compared to those who have not. These sort of disorders not only affect the victims alone but it may develop a kind of mental disorder in the rescue workers, medical, and support teams.
The present study aims at knowing the redundancy of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression among the survivors in Nepal after the devastating earthquake.
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Zahir Ahmed, M. (2019). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Among the Survivors of Nepal Earthquake: A Need Assessment Study. In: Zutshi, B., Ahmad, A., Srungarapati, A.B. (eds) Disaster Risk Reduction. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8845-2_19
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