@article{ref1,
title="Posttraumatic stress disorder after spinal cord injury",
journal="Rehabilitation psychology",
year="2017",
author="Cao, Yue and Li, Chao and Newman, Susan and Lucas, Jasmine and Charlifue, Susan and Krause, James S.",
volume="62",
number="2",
pages="178-185",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to identify the relationships of demographics, injury-related characteristics, employment, depressive symptoms, and health events with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among participants with spinal cord injury. RESEARCH METHOD: A total of 1,063 participants were recruited from 3 sites in different regions (Southeastern, Mountain, and Western) of the United States. Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks were oversampled. Three hundred sixty-nine were non-Hispanic White, followed by 361 non-Hispanic Black, 277 Hispanic, and 56 from other racial-ethnic groups. PTSD was measured by the Purdue PTSD Scale-Revised. All variables were measured by self-report. Multivariate logistic regression models were developed to assess the association between PTSD and multiple variables. <br><br>RESULTS: The overall prevalence of PTSD across all participants was 24.9%, and the mean PTSD score of all participants was 34.7 (SD = 14.6). PTSD was associated with depression, frequency of medication use for depression or stress, number of times receiving medical care because of injury in the past year, and race-ethnicity (lower among non-Hispanic Whites). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: PTSD was relatively prevalent in this study. PTSD was highly comorbid with depressive disorders and associated with post-spinal cord injuries within the previous year. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-5550",
doi="10.1037/rep0000135",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rep0000135"
}