@article{ref1,
title="Symptom severity, personal and social variables after armed robbery",
journal="British journal of clinical psychology",
year="2000",
author="Richards, D.",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="415-419",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relative importance of personal and social variables on post-trauma symptom recovery. DESIGN: Prospective survey of armed robbery victims. METHODS: Fifty-one consecutive armed robbery victims were assessed immediately and at 1 month post-raid for post-traumatic stress. One month post-raid, crisis support, causal attribution and coping were also measured. Thirty-one of the sample were assessed for symptoms 6 months after the raid. RESULTS: Both the main and follow-up samples had high levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms immediately after the raid which reduced significantly 1 month later and, for the follow-up subsample, further still 6 months later. Higher levels of symptoms at 1 month and poor crisis support were associated with higher levels of symptoms at follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Purposeful coping, symptom severity and social support effect post-trauma recovery.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0144-6657",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}