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iatrics and medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote about the findings appears in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, a medical journal. Co-authors are Drs. J. Richard Udry, professor of sociology and the Carolina Population Center, and center statistician Kim Chantala. Udry directs the Add Health study.

"Our findings suggest that the majority of young adults across the United States did well after Sept. 11 and had only mild, transitory symptoms," the authors wrote. "The meaning of young adults' increased political trust in the aftermath of Sept. 11, its anticipated duration and its future implications will likely be debated among social and political scientists and become an area for ongoing research."

Other key findings were that there were no significant differences between groups interviewed either before or after 9/11 in substance use or abuse, and young people who admitted to previous psychiatric illnesses did not appear to be more affected by the tragedies than others. No differences were found between groups interviewed before and after in how respondents viewed their health and life expectancy.

In weeks immediately following 9/11, males were significantly more likely to report the personal importance of religion than were pre-9/11 respondents. The shocking events had little apparent effect on females' views on that subject, but they did boost the percentage of young women who said they felt especially close to their fathers.

Men, but not women, were more likely to donate blood following 9/11 than they were before.

"Add Health provides an unprecedented description of the reactions of young adults in the U.S. to the events of Sept. 11, 2001," the authors wrote. If similar events occur in the future, "based on this study, we would predict that most will experience transient sadness, young men will turn to religion in the weeks immediately following a disaster and both
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Contact: David Williamson
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9-Jun-2003

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