Dealing with Katrina and facing the future

Poll: Losing everything tops difficulties faced by survivors

Friday, October 14, 2005 Posted: 0228 GMT (1028 HKT)

CNN) -- Hurricane Katrina's survivors face homelessness, unemployment and worry-filled sleepless nights, according to a poll of those who sought relief from the Red Cross.

According to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted in cooperation with the Red Cross, about a third of the 1,510 respondents were homeless, a quarter were out of work, and more than a fifth were still separated from at least one family member.

Roughly 60 percent said they had trouble sleeping and felt depressed; about two-thirds reported feeling anxiety. The most difficult thing cited? The loss of everything they owned. (See a report on the mental health of Katrina evacuees - 2:46)

The respondents came from a database maintained by the Red Cross of 463,172 households in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that have contacted the agency looking for assistance. >>>cont

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