A study last spring by the consulting firm BBK found that a third of the biggest North American suppliers were financially troubled and predicted that an additional 22percentt could become significantly distressed by mid-2008.
"So the fact that we have evidence of risk at these levels means that at even higher levels of symptomatology, where people might be significantly distressed and meet diagnostic criteria for P.T.S.D., you would expect to see even higher levels of risk".
Bereaved individuals, who were still significantly distressed by their loss, were randomly assigned to the intervention condition (N = 460) or a waiting-list control condition (N = 297).
New Zealand's mental health system is set up to deal with those diagnosed with a severe mental illness, but it does not offer enough or sometimes any support to those who are in the early stages of mental deterioration and yet are still significantly distressed.
Participants will be given the chance to supplement time-contingent assessments with event-contingent assessments whenever they feel significantly distressed.
The results may represent a "floor effect" among patients who were not significantly distressed and therefore had little room for improvement in symptoms.
