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      Mexican journalists: an investigation of their emotional health.

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      Journal of traumatic stress
      Wiley-Blackwell

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          Abstract

          Mexican journalists are frequently the victims of violence, often drug related. The purpose of the study was to assess their mental well-being. Of 104 journalists recruited from 3 news organizations, those who had stopped working on drug-related stories because of intimidation from the criminal drug cartels (n = 26) had significantly greater social dysfunction (p = .024); and more depressive (p = .001) and higher intrusive (p = .027), avoidance (p = .005), and arousal (p = .033) symptoms than journalists living and working under threat in regions of drug violence (n = 61). They also had more arousal (p = .05) and depressive (p = .027) symptoms than journalists (n = 17) never threatened before and living in regions without a drug problem. These findings provide preliminary data on the deleterious effects of drug-related violence on the Mexican media, amplifying the concerns expressed by journalist watchdog organizations monitoring the state of the press in the country.

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          Journal
          J Trauma Stress
          Journal of traumatic stress
          Wiley-Blackwell
          1573-6598
          0894-9867
          Aug 2012
          : 25
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ant.feinstein@utoronto.ca
          Article
          10.1002/jts.21715
          22807229
          592d6add-ea0d-45f4-876e-5ad860105e57
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