background: this study investigated the applicability of the post-traumatic stress disorder symptom scale (pss) in a group of adolescents who had been directly involved in a disaster in tehran. method: participants were 20 adolescents who had survived a boat sinking in tehran's city park in 2002. the assessment measures used were the post-traumatic stress disorder symptom scale (pss) and clinic...

there is little question anymore about the reality of post- traumatic stress disorder(ptsd) as a disorder. for some, this disorder progressively worsens over time and appears to affect nearly all aspects of life, including work, interpersonal relationships, physical health, and view of self. the severity of ptsd may lead to repeated hospitalizations over the years and may require ongoing outpat...

OBJECTIVE To determine if baseline functional health status, as measured by SF-36 (veterans), predicts new onset symptoms or diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder among deployed US military personnel with combat exposure. DESIGN Prospective cohort analysis. SETTING Millennium Cohort. PARTICIPANTS Combat deployed members who completed baseline (2001-3) and follow-up (2004-6) question...

documented war experiences have provided early descriptions of different group of psychiatric features. a combat soldier with palpitation and chest pains was felt to have a functional cardiac disturbance, called soldier's heart. anxiety and other symptoms indicating increased arousal were called shell shock and were thought to be related to lesions in the central nervous system (cns). desc...

BACKGROUND Women with abuse-related post-traumatic stress who are pregnant experience symptoms that nurses and midwives may not recognize or know how to respond to. AIM The purpose of this article is to increase familiarity with the post-traumatic stress disorder diagnostic framework by illustrating the symptom categories and associated features with women's descriptions of the symptoms from ...

Traumatic amputations are important causes of acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. In this study, we aimed to find out the occurrence rate of symptoms of acute and post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic amputations and according to this, to assess the psychiatric status of the patients in the postoperative period. Twenty-two patients with traumatic limb amputation w...

OBJECTIVE To describe new onset and persistence of self reported post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a large population based military cohort, many of whom were deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. DESIGN Prospective cohort analysis. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Survey enrolment data from the millennium cohort (July 2001 to June 2003) obtained before the wars in Iraq ...