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Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China

BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent long-term psychiatric disorders among survivors of traumatic events. It is well established that social support has been related to the onset of PTSD after natural disasters. However, very little is known whether or not s...

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Autores principales: Dai, Wenjie, Chen, Long, Tan, Hongzhuan, Wang, Jieru, Lai, Zhiwei, Kaminga, Atipatsa C., Li, Yan, Liu, Aizhong
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4770534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26924178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2871-x
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author Dai, Wenjie
Chen, Long
Tan, Hongzhuan
Wang, Jieru
Lai, Zhiwei
Kaminga, Atipatsa C.
Li, Yan
Liu, Aizhong
author_facet Dai, Wenjie
Chen, Long
Tan, Hongzhuan
Wang, Jieru
Lai, Zhiwei
Kaminga, Atipatsa C.
Li, Yan
Liu, Aizhong
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description BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent long-term psychiatric disorders among survivors of traumatic events. It is well established that social support has been related to the onset of PTSD after natural disasters. However, very little is known whether or not social support has had an influence on the recovery from the PTSD that was diagnosed after floods. This study, therefore, made a follow-up assessment of PTSD in flood victims 13–14 years after they were diagnosed with PTSD in 2000 to measure the prevalence rate of PTSD among them and identify the association between social support and their recovery from PTSD. METHODS: Victims who had experienced Dongting Lake flood in 1998 and had been diagnosed as having PTSD in 2000 were enrolled in this study. A follow-up survey was done between the years 2013 and 2014 to diagnose the victims again of PTSD using the DSM-IV criteria. Social support and its three dimensions were measured using the Chinese version of Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), including objective support, subjective support and support utilization. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between social support and the recovery from PTSD after flood. RESULTS: Out of 321 subjects with prior PTSD, 51 (15.89 %) were diagnosed as still having PTSD. Logistic regression analyses indicated that the recovery from prior PTSD was significantly associated with social support (odds ratio (OR) =0.202, 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI): 0.047–0.878), subjective support (OR = 0.236, 95 % CI: 0.080–0.694) and support utilization (OR = 0.245, 95 % CI: 0.071–0.844). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence rate of current PTSD indicates that natural disasters, such as floods, may affect the mental health of victims for a long time. Social support was significantly associated with the recovery from prior PTSD, especially subjective support and support utilization.
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spelling pubmed-47705342016-03-01 Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China Dai, Wenjie Chen, Long Tan, Hongzhuan Wang, Jieru Lai, Zhiwei Kaminga, Atipatsa C. Li, Yan Liu, Aizhong BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent long-term psychiatric disorders among survivors of traumatic events. It is well established that social support has been related to the onset of PTSD after natural disasters. However, very little is known whether or not social support has had an influence on the recovery from the PTSD that was diagnosed after floods. This study, therefore, made a follow-up assessment of PTSD in flood victims 13–14 years after they were diagnosed with PTSD in 2000 to measure the prevalence rate of PTSD among them and identify the association between social support and their recovery from PTSD. METHODS: Victims who had experienced Dongting Lake flood in 1998 and had been diagnosed as having PTSD in 2000 were enrolled in this study. A follow-up survey was done between the years 2013 and 2014 to diagnose the victims again of PTSD using the DSM-IV criteria. Social support and its three dimensions were measured using the Chinese version of Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), including objective support, subjective support and support utilization. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between social support and the recovery from PTSD after flood. RESULTS: Out of 321 subjects with prior PTSD, 51 (15.89 %) were diagnosed as still having PTSD. Logistic regression analyses indicated that the recovery from prior PTSD was significantly associated with social support (odds ratio (OR) =0.202, 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI): 0.047–0.878), subjective support (OR = 0.236, 95 % CI: 0.080–0.694) and support utilization (OR = 0.245, 95 % CI: 0.071–0.844). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence rate of current PTSD indicates that natural disasters, such as floods, may affect the mental health of victims for a long time. Social support was significantly associated with the recovery from prior PTSD, especially subjective support and support utilization. BioMed Central 2016-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4770534/ /pubmed/26924178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2871-x Text en © Dai et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Dai, Wenjie
Chen, Long
Tan, Hongzhuan
Wang, Jieru
Lai, Zhiwei
Kaminga, Atipatsa C.
Li, Yan
Liu, Aizhong
Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
title Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
title_full Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
title_fullStr Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
title_full_unstemmed Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
title_short Association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in Hunan, China
title_sort association between social support and recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after flood: a 13–14 year follow-up study in hunan, china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4770534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26924178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2871-x
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