TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Symptom severity, personal and social variables after armed robbery
JO  - British journal of clinical psychology
A1  - Richards, D.
SP  - 415
EP  - 419
VL  - 39
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0144-6657
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -