Funding for study of the psychological toll of the Canterbury earthquakes
Mon 25 Jul 2011
$3.91M of funding has been granted by the Health Research Council to extend the well-established Christchurch Health and Development Study, led ...
$3.91M of funding has been granted by the Health Research Council to extend the well-established Christchurch Health and Development Study, led by Professor David Fergusson from the University of Otago, Christchurch.
This is a longitudinal study of nearly 1,265 children born in Christchurch in 1977, and studied to age 30. The additional funding will allow the cohort to be interviewed at age 35, on a comprehensive range of issues relating to social background, economic and personal circumstances, mental health and related measures.
The team will use this body of data to estimate the impact of the Christchurch earthquake on participants, and produce findings to guide future policy and planning on natural disasters. For the first time, researchers will have detailed information on the health and wellbeing of those affected both before and after a natural disaster.
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Read the HRC media release Read the University of Otago's media release posted on Scoop
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