Alcohol consumption, interpersonal trauma, and drinking to cope with trauma-related distress: An auto-regressive, cross-lagged model.

Drinking to cope, emotional distress and alcohol use and abuse: a ten-year model.

OBJECTIVE This study examines the ability of baseline drinking to cope to predict drinking behavior across an ensuing 10-year period. In addition, it examines whether a propensity to consume alcohol to cope with stressors strengthens the link between emotional distress and drinking behavior. METHOD The study uses survey data from a baseline sample of 421 adults (54% women) assessed four times...

Pain and Related Pre-Hospital Factors in Patients With Trauma: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background and Aim: Pain is an experience often caused by tissue damage and is proportional to the severity of the injury. The role of underlying factors in severity of the pain such as prehospital factors have been discussed in some investigations. The current study aimed to assess the effect of different parameters on pain severity in patients with trauma. Methods and Materials/Patients: The...

Cofactors of alcohol-related trauma at a rural trauma center.

To analyze the cofactors of alcohol-related trauma at a rural, Level II trauma center, 127 admitted trauma patients were interviewed about psychological problems, social factors, and medical histories. Patients were divided into two groups, blood alcohol content (BAC) positive and BAC negative, for analysis. Seventy-one patients (56%) were BAC negative; 56 (44%) were BAC positive. Forty-three o...

Alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking to cope with social situations.

Repeated use of alcohol as a coping strategy to reduce anxiety or discomfort increases one's risk of developing alcohol dependence. Previous studies have found alcohol outcome expectancies (AOE) strongly predict drinking behavior, in general, and also are related to drinking to cope. The purpose of the current study was to examine AOE that may be related to drinking to cope with discomfort in s...

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Coping Flexibility and Trauma: The Perceived Ability to Cope With Trauma (PACT) Scale