OBJECTIVE Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often missed or incorrectly diagnosed in primary care settings. Although brief screening instruments may be useful in detecting PTSD, an adequate validation study has not been conducted with older adults. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the primary care PTSD screen (PC-PTSD) and single-item PTS...

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a chronic and progressive disorder that occurs after some traumas and accident. injuries and harm to health caused by motor vehicle accidents (mvas) have become an issue of global concern, as mvas are expected to be the third largest contributor to the worldwide burden of disease by the year 2020. chronic ptsd is a common consequence of mva and that it m...

exposure to traumatic events is common in children and adolescent. post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is an emotional reaction to traumatic events, which is increasingly recognized to be a prevalent and disabling disorder. the aim of this study is to determine the distribution of normative life events which predicts ptsd in youth who referred to an outpatient clinic in rasht, iran. this stud...

ALTHOUGH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTTRAUmatic stress disorder (PTSD) and aggression is generally well established within the literature, research investigating the relationship between PTSD and male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) has only begun to emerge. Preliminary findings suggest a link between trauma exposure, PTSD symptomatology, and maleperpetrated IPV, which may have impo...

<p style="text-align: justify;">Postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder (PP-PTSD) is quite common, with long-term adverse impact on mothers and their children. According to various studies, 3% 45.5% of women perceive childbirth experience as traumatic, 3.1% 43% further develop postpartum disorder. PP-PTSD a relatively new field study, therefore, there need in systematization the data pub...

OBJECTIVE To examine the factors predisposing to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in peers of adolescent suicide victims. METHOD One hundred forty-six adolescents who were the friends of 26 suicide victims were studied. Five percent (n = 8) developed PTSD after exposure to suicide. These 8 subjects with PTSD were compared to the remainder of the exposed subjects (n = 138). RESULTS Subje...

present therapeutic methods for PTSD are not efficient enough to reduce or disappear all the symptoms.several peripheral factors can affect developing and treating PTSD, such as human microbiota. There is a growing volume of evidence showing the effect of gut microbiota on brain and behaviour.PTSD is associated with an inflammatory state in blood, brain and cerebrospinal fluid.also, there is ev...