Psychophysiologic assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam nurse veterans who witnessed injury or death
| Autor: | Margaret A. Carson, Lynn A. Paulus, Roger K. Pitman, Natasha B. Lasko, Scott P. Orr, Linda J. Metzger, Jessica Wolfe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Military service Military nursing Life events medicine.disease behavioral disciplines and activities Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Posttraumatic stress Psychophysiology Nursing mental disorders medicine Etiology Skin conductance Psychology Psychiatry Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 68:890-897 |
| ISSN: | 1939-2117 0022-006X |
| Popis: | This study examined whether witnessing death and injury could produce psychophysiologically responsive posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Participants consisted of medication-free female Vietnam nurse veterans with a diagnosis of current PTSD (n = 17) and who never had PTSD (n = 21), related to their military service. Individualized scripts describing personal traumatic military nursing events, a standard military nursing event, and other life events were tape recorded and played back to the participant while heart rate, skin conductance, and facial electromyograms were recorded. Nurses with PTSD showed significantly larger physiologic responses than non-PTSD nurses only during imagery of military-related nursing events. The groups' self-reported emotional responses did not differ during imagery. Psychophysiologic results support the proposition that witnessing death and serious injury to others is sufficiently stressful to cause PTSD. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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