The Relationships Between Premilitary School Record Data and Risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Vietnam War Veterans
| Autor: | Charles G. Watson, Lee P. Gearhart, Claudia M. Mendez, Patricia E. D. Anderson, Ernest C. Davenport |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Weakness Multivariate analysis Substance-Related Disorders Academic achievement Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Vietnam War Risk Factors Absenteeism mental disorders medicine Humans Psychiatry Veterans Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Schools Records Achievement medicine.disease Hospitalization Psychiatry and Mental health Posttraumatic stress School performance Vietnam Multivariate Analysis medicine.symptom Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 186:338-344 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3018 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00005053-199806000-00003 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to determine whether Vietnam veterans' risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was correlated with their premilitary school performance. The authors compared both primary and secondary school record data on hospitalized chemically dependent PTSD patients with those of both non-PTSD, chemically dependent and community controls. All participants were male Vietnam war combat veterans. The comparisons were made with MANCOVA analyses with the effects of combat and age differences between groups controlled. For the most part, primary-school grade point average, absenteeism, and tardiness data on three groups did not differ significantly. However, the mean secondary school grade points of the future PTSD patients were generally substantially lower than those of controls. Additionally, more secondary school absenteeism and tardiness were reported among future PTSD patients than in the controls. The groups did not differ significantly on number of extracurricular activities. Academic weakness, absenteeism, and tardiness in secondary school appear to be moderately strong predictors of vulnerability to PTSD after traumatization. It also supports the claim that chronic PTSD is, in part, the result of weaknesses present before exposure to trauma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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