To the Editor: After the September 11 terrorist attacks, manypeople in the United States had substantial symptoms of stress.1,2,3However, little information is available from other countries.
Between October 6 and October 13, 2001, we conducted a surveymeasuring subjective health status by means of a standardizedinstrument the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey in a sample of 1928 persons who were representative of the populationof Italy. This instrument had been calibrated to provide anexpected mean value of 50.4,5 Trained interviewers collecteddata in the context of a personal telephone interview.
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