The effect of prior trauma exposure on the development of PTSD following spinal cord injury
| Autor: | Cynthia Radnitz, Louis M. Hsu, Ilana S. Schlein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Warfare Personality Inventory education Poison control Comorbidity behavioral disciplines and activities Occupational safety and health Central nervous system disease Life Change Events Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Recurrence mental disorders Injury prevention medicine Prevalence Humans Risk factor Psychiatry Spinal cord injury Spinal Cord Injuries Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Analysis of Variance Combat Disorders business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology business Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Journal of anxiety disorders. 14(3) |
| ISSN: | 0887-6185 |
| Popis: | Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in only a subset of individuals who sustain traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCIs). Several previous studies have examined the effects of additive trauma on the development of PTSD and found that a history of prior trauma increases the risk for later development of PTSD. The present study examines additive trauma by investigating the effects of previous combat exposure on the development of PTSD following spinal cord injury. Significant differences in prevalence rates for current PTSD were found for the comparisons of war theater (both combat and noncombat) versus non-war theater veterans but not for the comparison between combat and noncombat war theater veterans. Moreover, for all the comparisons, no significant differences were found in lifetime PTSD diagnoses. This implies that veterans with SCI who served in a war zone have increased difficulty recovering from their PTSD following a spinal cord injury than do non-war theater veterans. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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