PTSD Symptoms After Traumatic Versus Stressful Life Events in People With Mild Intellectual Disabilities: Proving the Null.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research in people without ID suggests that both traumatic events (i.e., A criterion events) and stressful life events (i.e., non-A criterion events) can produce PTSD symptoms. However, research on this subject in ID populations is limited. The discussion about the usefulness of Criterion A (i.e., the stressor criterion) as a gate criterion for PTSD in the DSM-5-TR is particularly important for people with mild intellectual disabilities (MID) or borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) because of their vulnerability to stressors. This study aimed to compare PTSD symptoms and impairment of daily life functioning (IDLF) score following traumatic versus stressful index events in people with MID-BIF.

Methods

The Diagnostic Interview Trauma and Stressors-Intellectual

SUBMITTER: Rouleaux M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12580472 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature