The present study examined the relations between insecure attachment and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among community-dwelling older adults with exposure to a broad range of traumatic events. Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance predicted more severe symptoms of PTSD and explained unique variance in symptom severity when compared to other individual difference measures a...

The autopsy material of the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the University of Wuerzburg, comprising 2512 post-mortem examinations between 1981 and 1988, was statistically analyzed. Blunt abdominal traumas could be detected in 424 (= 17%) of the 2512 deceased. Essential results: In 3/4 of the cases a traffic accident was the harmful event, followed by occupational accidents and suicide. In 9 ...

Background: Early diagnosis of major trauma and rapid transmission of patients to appropriate therapeutic centers have always been issues of concern. Several prognostic models for rapid clinical decision-making and estimating the mortality rate of multipletrauma patients have been presented previously. Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the GCS, Age, and systolic blood pressure (GA...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the mediator role of alexithymia and its relationship with childhood traumas (sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect) and attachment style (anxiety and avoidance dimensions of attachment) associated depression symptoms in adulthood. METHOD The sample of this study included 417 undergraduate universi...

BACKGROUND Chest trauma is responsible for 50% of deaths due to trauma. This kind of death usually occurs immediately after the trauma has occurred. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the various aspects of chest trauma in patients admitted to two main trauma centers located in the Isfahan Province, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS During a six month period, a cross-sectional study ...

UNLABELLED OBIECTIVE: This study assesses the descriptive epidemiology of children with eye injuries presenting to the Emergency Department of a non exclusive Paediatric University Hospital - First Division of Ophthalmology of "Sapienza" University of Rome - over a period of 12 years. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective long term study of 12 years. PARTICIPANTS All paediatric patients (up to 14 ye...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of self-reported experiences of potential childhood traumas and polytraumatization, and to find cut-off values for different kinds of potential traumatic events in a national representative sample of adults in Sweden. In addition, to analyse the association between polytraumatization and both psychological distress and global s...

A case of successful replacement of two coexistent chronic post-traumatic aneurysms of the thoracic aorta is presented. Presumably, these aneurysms at the aortic isthmus and the descending thoracic aorta resulted from two different deceleration traumas.

OBJECTIVE to verify the occurrence and the causes of hospital readmissions within a year after discharge from hospitalizations due to traffic accidents. METHODS victims of multiple traumas due to traffic accidents were included, who were admitted to an Intensive Care Unit. Sociodemographic data, accident circumstances, body regions affected and cause of readmission were collected from the pat...

The development-based trauma framework (DBTF) proposed a comprehensive taxonomy of stressors and traumas based on the salience existence identity development. goal this research is to check validity some DBTF parameters, specifically types severity (Types I, II, III), six major (attachment, personal identity, collective role survival secondary traumas) differential impact proliferation. We used...