6. ResultsFrom the http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Gemcitabine-Hydrochloride(Gemzar).html data analyses, nine preliminary themes emerged: emotions, depression, positive/improvement, worry/fear, weak/tired, shock, angry, survival, and change. After all analyses were completed, three major themes emerged: Emotion-Focused Outcomes and Aftereffects, Coping and Positive Steps Toward Improvement, and Worry and Fear. The three themes��and subthemes��that emerged suggested that K-12 faculty and staff suffered greatly from Hurricane Katrina. The negative aftereffects were evident��even 18 months after the disaster��in Theme 1. Theme 2 illustrated the resiliency and coping efforts on the part of the participants, despite the setbacks and extensive, far-reaching losses after Hurricane Katrina. Theme 3 illustrated present fears and worries and questions about the future.

The following sections present the major themes, subthemes, and comments.Theme 1 (Emotion-Focused Outcomes/Aftereffects) ��Theme 1 can be best explained by four distinct subthemes for the faculty and staff including Shock and Denial, Anger, Guilt, and Depression. From our analysis, we believe that the faculty and staff precisely described three of K��bler-Ross’ [19, 26] stages of grief (i.e., denial, anger, and depression) in Theme 1. In addition, the faculty and staff also talked openly about guilt, which falls under K��bler-Ross’ bargaining stage. Thus, four of the five stages described by K��bler-Ross were evident in this first theme.Subtheme 1.1 [Shock and Denial] ��The faculty and staff described initial shock and denial after the onset of Hurricane Katrina’s damage.

Consonant with K��bler-Ross’ framework, the participants experienced shock caused by the losses, and comments were wrought with initial intense feelings of disbelief. Also, fitting with K��bler-Ross’ [19] framework, the denial experienced by the participants appeared to be a ��temporary defense�� or transition into ��partial acceptance�� [26, page 34]. Comments related to shock and denial were heard��Who would have thought that within 24 hours your entire school, your church, your temple, your community is gone?����It just seemed like a bad dream. It was unreal.����I mean the first week after was just shock, with an underlying despair.����Initially, disbelieving, confused, sense of loss �� bewildered.����I think originally I was in denial. My husband and I were both in denial when we saw the news.

��Subtheme 1.2 [Anger] ��The Anger subtheme reflected the participants’ frustration toward people and agencies. This subtheme paralleled K��bler-Ross’ [19] second stage of grief, anger, whereby the denial stage ���� is replaced by feelings of anger, rage, envy, and resentment�� (page 43). Just as K��bler-Ross posited, ���� anger is displaced AV-951 in all directions and projected onto the environment at times almost at random�� (page 43).