Raymond Tempier Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Cumulative stress; Mental health; Disasters; Earthquakes; Probability sample; Haitians
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Raymond Tempier has been Chief of the Psychiatry Department at Hôpital Montfort since July 2011 to July 2013 and is a professor of psychiatry with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He is also a cross-appointed professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He leads the mental health research team based at the Institut de recherche de l’Hôpital Montfort.
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Antoine Messiah, Guillaume Vaiva, Erick Gokalsing, Raymond Tempier, Naomie Jean and Juan M Acuna
Purpose: This study evaluated correlates of mental health symptoms among Haitians living in Miami-Dade County, 2-3 years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, using 3 types of exposure variables: (1) basic exposure status (direct/indirect/no), (2) total of earthquake-related stressful events, (3) a combination of the two former variables. The novelty of the design was that it allowed studying disaster-related accumulated stress among people indirectly exposed to a disaster, which had not been done previously to the investigators’ knowledge.
Methods: A random-sample household survey was conducted from October 2011 through December 2012, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Haitian participa... view moreĀ»