TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Short-term follow-up of post-traumatic stress symptoms in motor vehicle accident victims
JO  - Behaviour research and therapy
A1  - Blanchard, E. B.
A1  - Hickling, E. J.
A1  - Vollmer, A. J.
A1  - Loos, W. R.
A1  - Buckley, Todd C.
A1  - Jaccard, James
SP  - 369
EP  - 377
VL  - 33
IS  - 4
N2  - Ninety-eight victims of recent motor vehicle accidents (MVA), who sought medical attention as a result of the MVA, were followed up prospectively 6 months after the initial assessment, using Keller, Lavori, Friedman, Nielsen, Endicott, McDonald-Scott and Andreasen's (Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 540-548, 1987) LIFE methodology so that month-by-month changes in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms could be determined. For the 40 MVA victims who initially met the full criteria for PTSD, 10 no longer met the criteria 4 months after the initial assessment, a decrease significant at the P < 0.01 level, and 20 no longer met the full criteria at 6 months (P < 0.001). On a symptom-by-symptom basis, there were significant declines among the fraction of those who initially met the criteria for PTSD for all avoidance and numbing symptoms by the 6-month follow-up, whereas most of the hyperarousal symptoms did not show significant declines.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0005-7967
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -