Lifetime mania is related to post-traumatic stress symptoms in high school students exposed to the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake

Impact of DSM-5 PTSD and gender on impaired eating behaviors in 512 Italian earthquake survivors

“…PTSD prevalence rates ranging between 10.3% and 49.6% have, in fact, been reported in the general population exposed to such events (Armenian et al, 2000;Bödvarsdottir and Elklit, 2004;Kun et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2009;Cairo et al, 2010;Dell'Osso et al, 2011b;Carmassi et al, 2013;), besides the tendency to a chronic and highly debilitating course and an elevated risk of complications such as suicide (Chou et al, 2007;Flores et al, 2014;Cénat and Derivois, 2014). Consisting results were reported by some of us regarding Italian survivors to the earthquake (Richter Magnitude 6.3) that struck the town of L'Aquila (Italy) on April 6 th 2009, causing 309 victims, more than 1,600 wounded and 66,000 displaced (Dell'Osso et al, 2011a;Dell'Osso et al, 2011b;Dell'Osso et al, 2012a;Dell'Osso et al, 2012b;Carmassi et al, 2014).…”

“…These schools have students with wide and representative socio-economic backgrounds. Methods are described in detail elsewhere (Dell'Osso et al, 2011;Dell'Osso et al, 2014;Carmassi et al, 2014). No a priori inclusion or exclusion criteria were used.…”

“…These encompass behaviors from reckless driving, promiscuous sex to selfinjuring behaviors, alcohol or drug use to relive themselves up to suicidal behaviors. A typical difference in the distribution between the two genders has been highlighted: if reckless driving, substance abuse and promiscuous sex appear to be more common among males, especially in adolescents, self cutting behaviors as well as lack of self care appear to be significantly more common in females (Dell'Osso et al, 2013a;Dell'Osso et al, 2013b;Carmassi et al, 2014;Dell'Osso et al, 2014). Similarly, these eating habits could represent atypical manifestations of stress exposure.…”

The prevalence and effect of life events in 222 bipolar I and II patients: A prospective, naturalistic 4 year follow-up study

“…Furthermore, we did not evaluate either severe trauma, or severe childhood trauma. Various studies suggest an important impact of severe trauma or PTSD as co-morbidity on the onset and course of the illness (Cutajar et al, 2010a(Cutajar et al, , 2010bDell'osso et al, 2014;Garno et al, 2005;Goldberg and Garno, 2005;Leverich et al, 2002;Neria et al, 2005;Shonkoff and Garner, 2012). Therefore, no conclusions can be drawn if they were prevalent and if so, whether they exerted an influence on the course of the disease.…”

Rumination in posttraumatic stress and growth after a natural disaster: a model from northern Chile 2014 earthquakes

“…How a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, can lead to stress or growth is the subject of intense research, and it has been found that posttraumatic growth is positively related to social support and spirituality (Cadell & Regehr, 2003), psychological well-being, physical health, optimism, religiosity, and coping strategies (Helgeson, Reynolds, & Tomich, 2006) and sociodemographic and psychosocial variables (Tsai, Sippel, Mota, Southwick, & Pietrzak, 2016). On the other hand, posttraumatic stress has been linked to maladaptive coping strategies (Cofini, Carbonelli, Cecilia, Binkin, & Di Orio, 2015), depressive symptoms (Dell’Osso et al, 2014), physiological markers (Orr & Roth, 2000), and sociodemographic and psychosocial variables (Chen et al, 2016; Fan, Long, Zhou, Zheng, & Liu, 2015; Flores, Carnero, & Bayer, 2014; Kun, Tong, Liu, Pei, & Luo, 2013). …”