The day-to-day relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and social support after sexual assault.

ABSTRACT: Background: Experiencing sexual assault is associated with a significant increase in risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder and related concerns (e.g. alcohol misuse). Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence suggests that social support may be both broadly protective against and eroded by posttraumatic stress symptoms. However, little is known about how different aspects of social support and posttraumatic stress symptoms influence each other in the weeks and months immediately following sexual assault, when posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms first emerge.Objective: The present study assessed the day-to-day relationship between social support and PTS in a sample of distressed, alcohol-using, recently-assaulted female survivors participating in a clinical trial o

SUBMITTER: Howe ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10880566 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature