Traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder in Spanish university students

Abstract

Resumen: El presente estudio se propuso estudiar en universitarios la ocurrencia de diferentes eventos traumáticos y el riesgo condicional y prevalencia actual de probable trastorno por estrés postraumático (TEPT). Cuatrocientos treinta y dos universitarios contestaron un cuestionario de eventos traumáticos y una escala de TEPT. El 60.6% de la muestra había experimentado algún evento traumático. El evento más frecuente fue la muerte violenta o inesperada de alguien cercano. Los peores eventos fueron la muerte de seres queridos y el padecimiento de violencia física o sexual. El riesgo condicional de probable TEPT fue 8.6% y la prevalencia actual, 5.2%. Estos datos son, con toda probabilidad, una sobrestimación de los verdaderos valores, debido probablemente al hecho de haber utilizado cuestionarios en vez de una entrevista estructurada, pero indican que aunque la experiencia de eventos traumáticos es frecuente, la inmensa mayoría de las personas que los padecen se sobreponen a los mismos. Palabras clave: trauma; eventos traumáticos; trastorno por estrés postraumático; universitarios.Title: Traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder in Spanish university students. Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyze in college students the occurrence of different traumatic events, as well as the conditional risk and current prevalence of probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Four hundred and thirty two college students completed a questionnaire concerning traumatic experiences, as well as a scale of PTSD. Of the sample, 60.6% had experienced a traumatic event. The most common was the violent or unexpected death of loved ones. The death of loved ones and suffering from physical or sexual violence were the worst events. The conditional risk of probable PTSD was 8.6% and the current prevalence, 5.2%. These data are probably an overestimate of the true values, probably due to having used questionnaires rather than a structured interview, but indicate that although the experience of traumatic events is common, the vast majority of people exposed to these events overcome them.

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“…The Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS) self-report was developed in its extended version by Lovibond and Lovibond (1995). For the study, we used the brief version, the DASS-21, validated for American and Spanish university students (Bados et al, 2005), and there is also a Chilean version (Daza, Novy, Stanley, & Averill, 2002) with favorable psychometric properties.…”

“…Psychopathological variables constitute a wide range of conditions on which immediate action is required, due to the impact on people's lives and the relevance acquired in the context of the health crisis, since the spread of Sars -Cov-2 not only directly affects the physical health but also the mental health of many people in the world (Ezpeleta, In this scenario, self-report instruments are basic resources for support in clinical practice (Fernández-Montalvo & Echeburúa, 2006). Therefore, it is important to explore some type of instrument that not only collects specific aspects but also allows a global assessment of the individual's psychological state, such as the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90; Derogatis (1990), one of the most widely used tools in the world, both for clinical and research applications, whose base responds to statistical and clinical criteria, giving rise to a total of 9 scales: anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsion, paranoid ideation, interpersonal sensitivity, psychoticism, hostility, and somatization, all of which are prominent and highly prevalent in mental health (Bados, Balaguer, & Coronas, 2005;Ezpeleta et al, 2020).…”

The Role of Objective and Subjective Experiences, Direct and Media Exposure, Social and Organizational Support, and Educational and Gender Effects in the Prediction of Children Posttraumatic Stress Reaction One Year after Calamity.

“…While the early trauma studies focused mainly on the degree and severity of exposure and the type of trauma (Bulut et al 2005;Bulut, 2006), the prevalence rates of PTSD (Bados, Greco & Toribio, 2012;Bulut, 2009aBulut, , 2010, more re-cent studies focused on the phenomenology of the traumatic experiences (Bulut, 2009b;Ruiz, 2006), predictive factors (Wang et al, 2009), comorbid disorders (Başoğlu et al 2004;Zhang et al 2011), social and school problems (Bulut, 2013).…”