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To the Editor: After the September 11 terrorist attacks, many people in the United States had substantial symptoms of stress.^1,2,3 However, little information is available from other countries.

Between October 6 and October 13, 2001, we conducted a survey measuring subjective health status by means of a standardized instrument — the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey — in a sample of 1928 persons who were representative of the population of Italy. This instrument had been calibrated to provide an expected mean value of 50.^4,5 Trained interviewers collected data in the context of a personal telephone interview.

The main results — the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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