Sentence examples for disaster degree from inspiring English sources

Until 4 years after the disaster, degree of exposure (a sum score) was a risk factor for PTSD symptoms while none of the individual disaster experiences could be identified as an independent risk factor.

But after 24 successful flights, the Challenger disaster underscored the degree to which the shuttle was an experimental vehicle.

The government considers all three parties responsible for the disaster, although the degree of liability will be decided in pending legal actions.

I mean, Iraq is an absolute disaster in large degree because of the U.S. invasion".

For these reasons, it is not helpful to simply equate the nature of disaster reactions with degree of proximity to the event, and those wishing to understand and plan for psychosocial responses should be wary of applying definitions and concepts of disasters and victims superficially and uncritically.

Cinema history books are littered with tales of bigger than Ben-Hur (or should that be bigger than Battlefield Earth?) box office disasters and a degree of guilty pleasure can be gleaned from reading about them.

Many Americans have experienced disasters, to one degree or another, or know someone how has—and they understand that we need to provide both immediate aid and find ways to mitigate future damage.

A Canadian study (Project Ice Storm) was set up some months after the 1998 Quebec ice storm by recruiting women who had been pregnant during the disaster, scoring their degrees of objective hardship and subjective distress.

Moreover, many studies examined the degree of disaster exposure by adding different disaster experiences into one single factor [ 1, 7, 8, 10- 12].

This study shows a positive and independent relation between degree of disaster exposure and symptoms of PTSD until 4 years after the disaster.

Table 6 shows the association between the degree of disaster exposure and symptoms of PTSD among survivors at wave 4, ten years post-disaster.