@article{ref1,
title="A three-year follow-up study of the psychosocial predictors of delayed and unresolved post-traumatic stress disorder in Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake survivors",
journal="Psychiatry and the Clinical Neurosciences",
year="2010",
author="Su, Chao-Yueh and Tsai, Kuan-Yi and Chou, Frank H-C and Ho, Wen-Wei and Liu, Ronghui and Lin, Wen-Kuo",
volume="64",
number="3",
pages="239-248",
abstract="Aims: To predict the longitudinal course of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in survivors three years following a catastrophic earthquake using multivariate data presented six months after the earthquake. Methods: Trained assistants and psychiatrists used the Disaster-related Psychological Screening Test (DRPST) to interview earthquake survivors 16 years and older and to assess current and incidental psychopathology. A total of 1756 respondents were surveyed over the three-year follow-up period. Results: A total of 38 (9.1%) of the original 418 PTSD subjects and 40 of the original 1338 (3.0%) non-PTSD subjects were identified as having PTSD at the 3-year post-earthquake follow up. Younger age, significant financial loss, and memory/attention impairment were predictive factors of unresolved PTSD and delayed PTSD. Conclusions: The longitudinal course of PTSD three years after the earthquake could be predicted as early as six months after the earthquake on the basis of demographic data, PTSD-related factors, and putative factors for PTSD.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1323-1316",
doi="10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02087.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02087.x"
}