Skin Conductance Reactivity as a Predictor of Stroke-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Dimensional Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms can develop following acute, life-threatening medical events. This study explores a potential biomarker of PTSD risk that is novel to a medical trauma population: a noninvasive, mobile skin conductance (SC) measurement.

Methods

Participants (N=64) were enrolled in-hospital following a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). Mobile measurement of SC reactivity to recalling the stroke/TIA traumatic event was conducted at hospital bedside in the days following the stroke/TIA. PTSD symptoms that developed in response to the stroke/TIA were measured at 1-month follow-up. We tested the association between SC reactivity and total 1-month PTSD symptoms, as well as PTSD symptom dimensions of fear and dysphoria.

Res

SUBMITTER: Meinhausen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11250708 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature