@article{ref1,
title="Natural course of posttraumatic symptoms in late-adolescent maritime disaster survivors: results of a 12-month follow-up study",
journal="Psychiatry investigation",
year="2018",
author="Jeon, Sang Won and Yoon, Ho-Kyoung and Kim, Yong-Ku and Han, Changsu and Ko, Young-Hoon and Yoon, Seo Young and Shin, Cheolmin",
volume="15",
number="6",
pages="574-583",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: This study is a prospective observational study on 75 late-adolescent survivors of a large passenger ship accident from immediately after the accident to one year later. <br><br>METHODS: Assessments of student survivors were conducted on day 2 and at months 1, 6, and 12. The PTSD Checklist (PCL), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), State subscale of the State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S), Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), and Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) were administered. <br><br>RESULTS: When the assessments for day 2 and month 12 were compared, all the scales, except the PCL-avoidance subscale, showed a significant improvement in symptoms among males. However, among females, all the scales, except the PCL-re-experience subscale and the STAI-S, failed to show a significant improvement. All the symptoms for both males and females showed a pattern that decreased to the lowest level at month 1 (camp-based controlled intervention period), then increased at months 6 and 12 (voluntary individual treatment after returning to school). <br><br>CONCLUSION: The rapid deterioration of psychological symptoms was found during the chronic phase, when students returned to their daily routines and received voluntary individual therapy. There is a need to screen high-risk adolescents and be more attentive to them during this period.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1738-3684",
doi="10.30773/pi.2017.11.30.3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.30773/pi.2017.11.30.3"
}