Posttraumatic stress symptoms in Navy personnel: Prevalence rates among recruits in basic training

Stander, Valerie A.; Merrill, Lex L.; Thomsen, Cynthia J.; Milner, Joel S.

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.12.001

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“…Each item is a word or phrase that is rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (no problem) to 4 (extreme problem), reflecting the extent to which the particular symptom was a problem for the respondent during the past one month. The LASC is a widely used PTSD evaluating instrument (e.g., Eriksson, Kemp, Gorsuch, Hoke, & Foy, 2001;Scott, 2007;Stander, Merrill, Thomsen, & Milner, 2007), and reliability and validity of this scale have been well documented (Orsillo, 2001). The Chinese version of the Los Angeles Symptom Checklist was adapted by a two-stage process of translation and reverse translation.…”

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Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among adult survivors three months after the Sichuan earthquake in China

Wang

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2009

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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The study investigated the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated risk factors among adult survivors 3 months after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China. One thousand five hundred sixty-three earthquake survivors in two communities participated in the study. The prevalence of probable PTSD was 37.8% and 13.0%, respectively, in the two communities that were affected differently by the earthquake. The significant predictive factors for the severity of PTSD symptoms were female gender, subnationality, lower educational level, lower social support, and higher initial exposure level. The results indicate that PTSD is also a common mental health problem among earthquake survivors in China. Given inadequate knowledge and practices concerning the mental health of disaster victims in China, the information provided by this study is useful for directing, strengthening, and evaluating disaster-related mental health needs and interventions after the earthquake.

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