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Is post-traumatic stress disorder related to the severity of physical trauma?

OBJECTIVE: Trauma can cause physical morbidity and even result in death. Besides, it can lead to serious mental problems as well. The most well-known mental health problem is post-traumatic stress disorder. Through this study, it was primarily aimed to find out whether the severity of physical traum...

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Autores principales: Aydogdu, Halil Ilhan, Koca, Yasin, Cirakoglu, Emre, Anolay, Nurettin Nezih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação Médica Brasileira 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10508949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37729370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.20230439
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author Aydogdu, Halil Ilhan
Koca, Yasin
Cirakoglu, Emre
Anolay, Nurettin Nezih
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description OBJECTIVE: Trauma can cause physical morbidity and even result in death. Besides, it can lead to serious mental problems as well. The most well-known mental health problem is post-traumatic stress disorder. Through this study, it was primarily aimed to find out whether the severity of physical trauma is effective on post-traumatic stress disorder and other risk factors if any. METHODS: The reports of the patients who were transferred to the Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine Third Speciality Board between January 01, 2019, and December 31, 2020, for post-traumatic invalidity or disability evaluation and whose psychiatric examinations were performed were retrospectively analyzed in the electronic environment. RESULTS: It was found that 34 (26.4%) of the patients had a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (under treatment for at least 6 months), while 76 (58.9%) of them did not have a psychiatric disease and 19 (14.7%) of them had mental disorders not associated with trauma (i.e., affective disorder, anxiety disorder, etc.). No significant correlation was found between trauma scores and post-traumatic stress disorder (p>0.05). CONCLUSION: Based on the results of our study, post-traumatic stress disorder and the severity of physical trauma are not significantly correlated. Being of female gender, sustaining a non-accidental injury, and witnessing a fatal event stand out as significant risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-105089492023-09-20 Is post-traumatic stress disorder related to the severity of physical trauma? Aydogdu, Halil Ilhan Koca, Yasin Cirakoglu, Emre Anolay, Nurettin Nezih Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992) Original Article OBJECTIVE: Trauma can cause physical morbidity and even result in death. Besides, it can lead to serious mental problems as well. The most well-known mental health problem is post-traumatic stress disorder. Through this study, it was primarily aimed to find out whether the severity of physical trauma is effective on post-traumatic stress disorder and other risk factors if any. METHODS: The reports of the patients who were transferred to the Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine Third Speciality Board between January 01, 2019, and December 31, 2020, for post-traumatic invalidity or disability evaluation and whose psychiatric examinations were performed were retrospectively analyzed in the electronic environment. RESULTS: It was found that 34 (26.4%) of the patients had a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (under treatment for at least 6 months), while 76 (58.9%) of them did not have a psychiatric disease and 19 (14.7%) of them had mental disorders not associated with trauma (i.e., affective disorder, anxiety disorder, etc.). No significant correlation was found between trauma scores and post-traumatic stress disorder (p>0.05). CONCLUSION: Based on the results of our study, post-traumatic stress disorder and the severity of physical trauma are not significantly correlated. Being of female gender, sustaining a non-accidental injury, and witnessing a fatal event stand out as significant risk factors. Associação Médica Brasileira 2023-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10508949/ /pubmed/37729370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.20230439 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aydogdu, Halil Ilhan
Koca, Yasin
Cirakoglu, Emre
Anolay, Nurettin Nezih
Is post-traumatic stress disorder related to the severity of physical trauma?
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title_sort is post-traumatic stress disorder related to the severity of physical trauma?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10508949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37729370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.20230439
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