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Creamer, Mark; O'Donnell, Meaghan L.; Pattison, Phillipa
{ "description": "This prospective longitudinal study was designed to investigate the relationship between acute stress disorder (ASD) and the subsequent development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a population of severely injured hospitalised trauma survivors. Symptoms of ASD were assessed just prior to discharge in 307 consecutive admissions to a Level 1 Trauma Centre, with PTSD assessments completed at 3 and 12 months post-injury. A well-established structured clinical interview was adopted for both assessments. Only 1% of the sample met criteria for an ASD diagnosis (at a mean of 8 days post-injury), while the incidence of PTSD was 9% at 3 months and 10% at 12 months. Although all ASD symptom clusters contributed to the prediction of subsequent PTSD severity, logistic regression indicated that only re-experiencing and arousal predicted a categorical PTSD diagnosis. The dissociative symptoms that form the core of ASD were rarely endorsed and showed high specificity but low sensitivity, resulting in a high proportion of false negative diagnoses. Reducing the number of dissociative symptoms required for a diagnosis ameliorated, but did not resolve, the problem. In this particular population, the low sensitivity of the ASD diagnosis renders it a poor screening test for use in identifying high risk individuals for early intervention and prevention strategies.", "license": "", "creator": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Creamer, Mark" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "O'Donnell, Meaghan L." }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pattison, Phillipa" } ], "headline": "The relationship between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in severely injured trauma survivors", "image": "https://zenodo.org/static/img/logos/zenodo-gradient-round.svg", "datePublished": "2004-04-01", "url": "https://zenodo.org/record/918339", "@context": "https://schema.org/", "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7967(03)00141-4", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1016/s0005-7967(03)00141-4", "@type": "ScholarlyArticle", "name": "The relationship between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in severely injured trauma survivors" }
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