Trajectories of posttraumatic stress symptoms after civilian or deployment traumatic event experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Growth mixture model studies have observed substantial differences in the longitudinal patterns of posttraumatic stress symptom (PTSS) trajectories. This variability could represent chance iterations of some prototypical trajectories or measurable variability induced by some aspect of the source population or traumatic event experience. Testing the latter, the authors analyzed a nationally representative sample of U.S. Reserve and National Guard members to identify the influence of civilian versus deployment trauma on the number of PTSS trajectories, the nature of these trajectories, and the proportion of respondents in each trajectory.

Method

Data were collected from 2010 to 2013 and latent class growth analysis was used to identify different patterns of PTSS in p

SUBMITTER: Fink DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5161718 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature