After Deepwater Horizon, children’s mental health was tied less to mothers’ direct oil spill exposure than to the financial and social losses that exposure was associated with. doi.org/hb728k
Children's mental health may be indirectly harmed by their mothers' experience of a major disaster, through the financial and social losses the disaster causes, according to a new study published in PLOS One by Ariane Lisann Rung of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, US, and colleagues.