Changes in the Levels of Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety in Ansan City After the 2014 Sewol Ferry Disaster

On April 16, 2014, a ferry known as the MV Sewol sunk in the southern area of the West Sea in Korea with 476 passengers on board (Park  and Hancocks, 2015) (Fig. 1). This accident, known as the Sewol ferry disaster, caused 304 deaths, of which 250 were students from a high school in Gojan-dong of Ansan city. The media coverage of the rescue attempts greatly affected the public, and the Korean government announced that Ansan city , where most of the victims from the Sewol ferry disaster resided, was a special disaster zone.
Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research