Coping During Pregnancy Following Exposure to a Natural Disaster: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study

This study investigated how coping strategies moderated the impact of disaster-related objective hardship on subjective distress in pregnant women. The objective hardship (exposure severity), subjective distress (Peritraumatic Distress Inventory, Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire and Impact of Event Scale-Revised) and coping styles (Brief COPE) of pregnant women (N = 226) exposed to the 2011 Queensland, Australia flood were...