Disaster victims are assessed for physical, emotional, and cognitive reactions, but not financial reactions, as the latter are not considered immediate physiological stress responses in medical care.
Disaster victims presenting for medical care should be assessed for common short-term stress reactions, which can be categorized into physical reactions, emotional reactions, and cognitive reactions. These categories relate to Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome, which identifies the stages of the body's response to stress: alarm reaction, stage of resistance, and stage of exhaustion. However, financial reactions are not typically part of the immediate short-term stress reactions assessed in medical care; financial concerns are a separate set of stressors that may have long-term implications rather than immediate physiological impacts.