Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among the survivors of two suicide bombings in Iraq

The prevalence rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and subthreshold PTSD (SPTSD) were measured in 258 survivors of two suicide bombings in Karbala, Iraq, 2 months after the incidents. Of the total sample, 112 (43.4%) had PTSD and 59 (22.9%) had SPTSD. PTSD was more prevalent after the inc...

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Autores principales: Abbas, Mohammed J., Al Haidary, Amir Fadhil, Alghanimy, Sabah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507744
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description The prevalence rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and subthreshold PTSD (SPTSD) were measured in 258 survivors of two suicide bombings in Karbala, Iraq, 2 months after the incidents. Of the total sample, 112 (43.4%) had PTSD and 59 (22.9%) had SPTSD. PTSD was more prevalent after the incident that was associated with more civilian deaths.
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spelling pubmed-67350882019-09-10 Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among the survivors of two suicide bombings in Iraq Abbas, Mohammed J. Al Haidary, Amir Fadhil Alghanimy, Sabah Int Psychiatry Research Paper The prevalence rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and subthreshold PTSD (SPTSD) were measured in 258 survivors of two suicide bombings in Karbala, Iraq, 2 months after the incidents. Of the total sample, 112 (43.4%) had PTSD and 59 (22.9%) had SPTSD. PTSD was more prevalent after the incident that was associated with more civilian deaths. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735088/ /pubmed/31507744 Text en © 2013 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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