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Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey
Coronavirus pandemics increase the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which requires intensive treatment and is related to several long-term psychiatric disorders. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and hence trauma symptoms. It is not known what is the prevalence o...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35063737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.12.054 |
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author | Armitage, Christopher J. Dawes, Piers Munro, Kevin J. |
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description | Coronavirus pandemics increase the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which requires intensive treatment and is related to several long-term psychiatric disorders. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and hence trauma symptoms. It is not known what is the prevalence of trauma symptoms relating to COVID-19 specifically among older adults nor what may be the markers for the emergence of trauma symptoms. The aim of the present research was to estimate the prevalence, and identify correlates of, traumatic stress symptoms attributable to COVID-19 among older adults in the UK. A cross-sectional survey that assessed COVID-19-related trauma symptoms and demographics was conducted with a sample of 3012 adults aged 60 years and older who were representative of the UK population. Data were analysed descriptively and using multiple/logistic regression. 36.5% of the sample (n = 1100) reported experiencing clinically meaningful traumatic stress symptoms that could lead to as many as 27.4% of the sample going on to develop PTSD. Women and younger older adults were particularly likely to experience clinically meaningful symptoms of traumatic stress. Work is urgently required to prepare services to address what may be substantial numbers of older people presenting with PTSD in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-87200772022-01-03 Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey Armitage, Christopher J. Dawes, Piers Munro, Kevin J. J Psychiatr Res Article Coronavirus pandemics increase the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which requires intensive treatment and is related to several long-term psychiatric disorders. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 and hence trauma symptoms. It is not known what is the prevalence of trauma symptoms relating to COVID-19 specifically among older adults nor what may be the markers for the emergence of trauma symptoms. The aim of the present research was to estimate the prevalence, and identify correlates of, traumatic stress symptoms attributable to COVID-19 among older adults in the UK. A cross-sectional survey that assessed COVID-19-related trauma symptoms and demographics was conducted with a sample of 3012 adults aged 60 years and older who were representative of the UK population. Data were analysed descriptively and using multiple/logistic regression. 36.5% of the sample (n = 1100) reported experiencing clinically meaningful traumatic stress symptoms that could lead to as many as 27.4% of the sample going on to develop PTSD. Women and younger older adults were particularly likely to experience clinically meaningful symptoms of traumatic stress. Work is urgently required to prepare services to address what may be substantial numbers of older people presenting with PTSD in the future. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03 2021-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8720077/ /pubmed/35063737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.12.054 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Armitage, Christopher J. Dawes, Piers Munro, Kevin J. Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey |
title | Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey |
title_full | Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey |
title_fullStr | Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey |
title_short | Prevalence and correlates of COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: A national survey |
title_sort | prevalence and correlates of covid-19-related traumatic stress symptoms among older adults: a national survey |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35063737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.12.054 |
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