The Role of Patient Characteristics in the Concordance of Daily and Retrospective Reports of PTSD.

ABSTRACT: Research has documented discrepancies between daily and retrospective reports of psychological symptoms in a variety of conditions. A limited number of studies have assessed these discrepancies in samples of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with even less research addressing potential covariates that may influence such discrepancies. In the current study, 65 individuals with co-occurring PTSD and alcohol use disorder (AUD) completed daily assessments of their PTSD symptoms for 1 month, followed by a standard retrospective report of PTSD over the same month. Initial analyses explored the mean levels of daily and retrospective PTSD symptoms, while multilevel models assessed the level of agreement between daily and retrospective reports and the role of demographic variab

SUBMITTER: Campbell SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5458524 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature