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Careful planning, focus group research, and investigation may help to build this kind of trust, but all of those steps add time (and expenses) to the research process. c) Use of untested assumptions. Researchers may have their own assumptions about how people react to trauma, and these assumptions may negatively affect their own neutrality. Those assumptions may also impact the design of the study, through the types of questions being asked in the research to the way the researcher interacts with the subjects. Misconceptions about trauma are rampant, and in fact people react very differently to stresses in their lives.

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Many of those closest to the trauma had the most acute symptoms immediately following the incident, and for up to a year afterward. Those who had been previously diagnosed with mental health difficulties had a more acute reaction to the trauma, and prior life experiences for everyone impacted the way they reacted to the incident. Those who experience a traumatic event are likely to be more vulnerable to more acute reactions following future traumatic events.

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