TY - JOUR
T1 - Short-term follow-up of post-traumatic stress symptoms in motor vehicle accident victims
AU - Blanchard, Edward B.
AU - Hickling, Edward J.
AU - Vollmer, Alisa J.
AU - Loos, Warren R.
AU - Buckley, Todd C.
AU - Jaccard, James
PY - 1995/5
Y1 - 1995/5
N2 - 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 < 0.001). On a symptom-by-symptom basis, there were significant declines among the fraction of those who initially 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.
AB - 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 < 0.001). On a symptom-by-symptom basis, there were significant declines among the fraction of those who initially 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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U2 - 10.1016/0005-7967(94)00067-T
DO - 10.1016/0005-7967(94)00067-T
M3 - Article
C2 - 7755524
AN - SCOPUS:0028946796
SN - 0005-7967
VL - 33
SP - 369
EP - 377
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
IS - 4
ER -