On poverty and trauma: associations between neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation, post-traumatic stress disorder severity and treatment response.

ABSTRACT: Aims: To determine if neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation is associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity and psychological treatment response.Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study based on the analysis of electronic health records for N = 2064 patients treated for PTSD across 16 psychological therapy services in England. The Revised Impact of Events Scale (IES-R) scale was used to measure PTSD severity and associations were examined with the neighbourhood-level index of multiple deprivation (IMD) using non-parametric correlations and multilevel modelling.Results: Three times more PTSD cases (33.6% vs. 9.7%) were clustered within the most deprived IMD quintile compared to the least deprived quintile. A small and statisticall

SUBMITTER: Delgadillo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12415998 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature