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Posttraumatic stress disorder after spinal cord injury.

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to identify the relationships of demographics, injury-related characteristics, employment, depressive symptoms, and health events with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among participants with spinal cord injury. RESEARCH METHOD: A total of 1,063 participants were recruited from 3 sites in different regions (Southeastern, Mountain, and Western) of the United States. Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks were oversampled. Three hundred sixty-nine were non-Hispanic White, followed by 361 non-Hispanic Black, 277 Hispanic, and 56 from other racial-ethnic groups. PTSD was measured by the Purdue PTSD Scale-Revised. All variables were measured by self-report. Multivariate logistic regression models were developed to assess the association between PTSD and multiple variables. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of PTSD across all participants was 24.9%, and the mean PTSD score of all participants was 34.7 (SD = 14.6). PTSD was associated with depression, frequency of medication use for depression or stress, number of times receiving medical care because of injury in the past year, and race-ethnicity (lower among non-Hispanic Whites). CONCLUSIONS: PTSD was relatively prevalent in this study. PTSD was highly comorbid with depressive disorders and associated with post-spinal cord injuries within the previous year. (PsycINFO Database Record

Source: Rehabilitation Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/rep0000135

Authors: Yue Cao, Chao Li, Susan Newman, Jasmine Lucas, Susan Charlifue, James S. Krause

Institutions: Medical University of South Carolina, Craig Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund