Abstract Introduction Trauma-exposed individuals are at risk of developing symptoms posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which has been linked to both sleep disturbances and sleep-related daytime impairment. A growing body literature suggests affective processes, such as negative positive emotion regulation, may influence associations between PTSD sleep. Therefore, our study aimed examine if t...

An affective, somatic, and memory check-list of symptoms was administered to subjects who had no personal experience or knowledge of head injury. Subjects indicated their current experiences of symptoms, then imagined having sustained a mild head injury in a motor vehicle accident, and endorsed symptoms they expected to experience six months after the injury. The checklist of symptoms was also ...

CONTEXT The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and disability in refugee survivors of mass violence is not known. OBJECTIVE To determine if risk factors, such as demographics, trauma, health status, and psychiatric illness, are associated with disability in Bosnian refugees. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional survey conducted in 1996 of Bosnian refugee adults living in...

Being a victim of abuse in childhood can lead to the development trauma-related psychopathology, which could affect testimony child victim. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is factor that increase both levels suggestibility and production memory errors, such as confabulations, be identified distortions fabrications. No studies have analyzed relationship between suggestibility, fabrications...

BACKGROUND Preventable deaths due to errors in trauma patients with otherwise survivable injuries account for up to 10% of fatalities in Level I trauma centers, 50% of these errors occur in the intensive care unit (ICU). The root cause of 67% of the Joint Commission sentinel events is communication errors. The objective is (1) to study how critical information degrades and how it is lost over 2...

The purpose of this study was to describe behavioural and emotional symptoms and to examine the effect of abuse-related factors, family responses to disclosure, and child self-blame on these symptoms in children presenting for medical evaluations after disclosure of sexual abuse. A retrospective review was conducted of 501 children ages 8-17. Trauma symptoms were determined by two sets of quali...

OBJECTIVE Inconsistent findings have been reported concerning the level of dissociative symptoms and their relationship with childhood trauma in alcohol-dependent patients. The present study aimed to further examine the level of dissociation and the trauma-dissociation relationship in a sample of alcohol-dependent patients, taking potential mediating factors into account. METHOD A sample of 1...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases, 11th version (ICD-11), has proposed a trauma-related diagnosis of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) separate and distinct from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). OBJECTIVE To determine whether the symptoms endorsed by individuals who had experienced childhood institutional abuse form classe...

BACKGROUND The Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSC-C) is the most widely used self-report scale to assess trauma-related symptoms in children and adolescents on six clinical scales. The purpose of the present study was to develop a German version of the TSC-C and to investigate its psychometric properties, such as factor structure, reliability, and validity, in a sample of German adolesc...

......................................................................................................................... CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 7 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................... 9 Prevalence of Traumatic Events ..................................