Acute Stress Disorder After Burn Injury

A Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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ID19306235
AuthorsJoAnn Difede (0000-0003-1013-8065, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume64
Issue5
Pages826-834
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/01.psy.0000024237.11538.08
PMID12271114
OpenAlexW2016515357
LanguageDE
Citations received2
References cited7

OBJECTIVES: The principal goals of this study were to determine whether ASD predicted chronic PTSD and whether dissociation is more characteristic of the acute-trauma period than PTSD symptoms. METHODS: Eighty-three hospitalized adult burn patients were assessed with structured interviews and self-report measures within 2 weeks of injury and again at least 6 months postburn. RESULTS: Nineteen percent had ASD. Dissociative symptoms were not more common or more severe than PTSD symptoms. Thirty-six percent had chronic PTSD. While ASD predicted chronic PTSD, meeting the symptom criteria for PTSD within 2 weeks postburn also predicted chronic PTSD. CONCLUSIONS: Our data support the inclusion of an ASD diagnosis in the DSM, which would allow the diagnosis of symptoms in the first month posttrauma as a psychiatric disorder but questions whether dissociation is more characteristic of the acute trauma period than the PTSD symptom clusters

Acute Stress Disorder · Burn injury · Dissociative · Dissociative disorders · Posttraumatic stress · Psychiatry · Burn Injury Management and Outcomes · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Surgery · Traumatic Brain Injury Research

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