Short-term follow-up of post-traumatic stress symptoms in motor vehicle accident victims.

Author(s)
Blanchard, E.B. Hickling, E.J. Vollmer, A.J. Loos, W.R. Buckley, T.C. & Jaccard, J.
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Abstract

Ninety-eight victims of recent motor vehicle accidents (MVA), who sought medical attention as a result of the MVA, were followed up prospectively 6 months after the initial assessment, using Keller, Lavori, Friedman, Nielsen, Endicott, McDonald-Scott and Andreasen's (Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 540-548, 1987) LIFE methodology so that month-by-month changes in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms could be determined. For the 40 MVA victims who initially met the full criteria for PTSD, 10 no longer met the criteria 4 months after the initial assessment, a decrease significant at the P < 0.01 level, and 20 no longer met the full criteria at 6 months (P < 0.01). On a symptom-by-symptom basis there were significant declines among the fraction of those who initialy met the criteria for PTSD for all avoidance and numbing symptoms by the 6 month follow-up, whereas most of the hyperarousal symptoms did not show significant declines.

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951128 ST [electronic version only]
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Behaviour Research and Therapy, Vol. 33 (1995), No. 4 (May), p. 369-377, 14 ref.

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