TY - JOUR
T1 - Experience of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks by Airline Flight Staff
AU - North, Carol S
AU - Pollio, David E.
AU - Hong, Barry A.
AU - Suris, Alina M
AU - Westerhaus, Elizabeth Terry
AU - Kienstra, Debra Munro
AU - Smith, Rebecca P.
AU - Pfefferbaum, Betty
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grants 66628 and 68853 to Dr. North. Conflicts of Interest and Source of Funding: Dr. North discloses employment by VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX, USA; research support by NIAAA, NIDDK, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association; consultant fees from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and from the Tarrant County, TX Department of Health; and speaker’s fees from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Points of view in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States government.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the 9/11-related experiences, observations, and perceptions of airline flight staff highly connected to the terrorist attacks and the effects of the attacks on their work. A focus group of seven flight staff was conducted in January 2004. Spoken passages (N = 115) were categorized into themes, with excellent interrater reliability. Item count frequencies were tabulated for each theme. Five themes emerged: disaster experience, emotional response, perceived danger, interpersonal response, and workplace response. The flight staff characterized their daily work as front-line duty fraught with danger, uncertainty, and vivid reminders.
AB - The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the 9/11-related experiences, observations, and perceptions of airline flight staff highly connected to the terrorist attacks and the effects of the attacks on their work. A focus group of seven flight staff was conducted in January 2004. Spoken passages (N = 115) were categorized into themes, with excellent interrater reliability. Item count frequencies were tabulated for each theme. Five themes emerged: disaster experience, emotional response, perceived danger, interpersonal response, and workplace response. The flight staff characterized their daily work as front-line duty fraught with danger, uncertainty, and vivid reminders.
KW - disaster
KW - focus groups
KW - psychosocial
KW - qualitative analysis
KW - terrorism
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U2 - 10.1080/15325024.2012.701123
DO - 10.1080/15325024.2012.701123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873150407
SN - 1532-5024
VL - 18
SP - 322
EP - 341
JO - Journal of Loss and Trauma
JF - Journal of Loss and Trauma
IS - 4
ER -