Each year, some 70,000 people in the U.S. survive being shot.
Before being shot, 76 percent of the victims were employed, dropping to 62.1 percent after they were shot. The survivors also scored lower than the average person on physical and mental health tests. Substance and alcohol use rose by 13.2 percent, and unemployment levels spiked by 14.3 percent.
Of the total, 48.6 percent of the participants scored positive on a screening for probable post-traumatic stress disorder . This mental health condition can develop after a person witnesses a disturbing event. The illness is characterized by anxiety, nightmares, flashbacks and thoughts about the event that are difficult to control.
Citing existing evidence, the researchers highlighted that 462,043 people were killed by firearms between 1999 and 2013 in the U.S., with homicides involving firearms last year hitting their highest levels since records began in 2017."We found that survivors ofexperience adverse physical and mental function outcomes years after being shot.
The researchers also acknowledged their study was limited in several ways, including that they couldn't contact many gunshot wound patients treated at their facility during the period of the study. Participants may have also been influenced by subtle differences in how the researchers approached them despite using the same script, the team surmised.
A stock image of a person holding a gun. Gunshot wounds have been linked to poor mental and physical health in a study.
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