Research documents that terror has ability to have a significant impact across borders
The day the world changed (photo: TheMachineStops (Robert J. Fisch) |
Some 15 years ago today, the world watched in shock and disbelief as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center came crashing to the ground. Many people instantly realised that the world would change forever.
The terror attack in New York and other locations in the US on 11 September 2001 had a profound impact on America as a nation and the rest of the world, massively impacting the global geopolitical situation and helping shape it into what it is today. The ripples also extended across the Atlantic ocean to little Denmark.
A new Danish study based on 18 years of data from the Psychological Central Registry has uncovered that the deadly co-ordinated attack led to a boom in the diagnoses of psychological disorders in Denmark.
“The attacks on the World Trade Center led to the diagnosis of around 400 more trauma and stress-related disorders than expected in the year following 11 September 2001,” Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen, a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU) and co-author of the findings, told Videnskab.dk.
The increase was most noticeable in the weeks following the attack when the number of diagnoses increased by upwards of 16 percent.