TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The organisation and content of trauma memories in survivors of road traffic accidents
JO  - Behaviour research and therapy
A1  - Jones, Craig
A1  - Harvey, A. G.
A1  - Brewin, Chris R.
SP  - 151
EP  - 162
VL  - 45
IS  - 1
N2  - We investigated the trauma narratives of 131 road traffic accident survivors prospectively, at 1 week, 6 weeks, and 3 months post-trauma. At 1 and 6 weeks, narratives of survivors with acute stress disorder (ASD) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were less coherent and included more dissociation content. By 3 months, their narratives also contained more repetition, more non-consecutive chunks, and more sensory words. Traumatic brain injury was associated with a separate characteristic, confusion, at all three time points. Three aspects of narrative organisation at 1 week-repetition, non-consecutive chunks, and coherence-predicted PTSD severity at 3 months after controlling for initial symptoms. The results suggest both a strong concurrent and predictive relationship between narrative disorganisation and ASD/PTSD but that as people recover from ASD, their narratives do not necessarily become less disorganised.
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SN  - 0005-7967
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2006.02.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -