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Article: Reports outline post traumatic stress disorder research from S. Riviere and colleagues.(Survey)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 26, 2008
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In this recent article published in the
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
, scientists in Toulouse, France conducted a study "To analyse in the general population the prevalence and predictors of symptomatology consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder ( S-PTSD) 18 months after an industrial explosion. Cross-sectional survey. Participants and outcome measures: A random sample of 1191 city inhabitants, including an oversample of the immediate area (, 3 km)."
"S-PTSD was measured by the self-administered Impact of Event Scale-Revised. The relation between S-PTSD and individual vulnerability factors, immediate exposure and post-trauma factors was ...