Making connections: exploring the centrality of posttraumatic stress symptoms and covariates after a terrorist attack.

ABSTRACT: Background: Posttraumatic stress symptoms are interconnected. Knowledge about which symptoms of posttraumatic stress are more strongly interconnected or central than others may have implications for the targeting of clinical interventions. Exploring whether symptoms of posttraumatic stress may be differentially related to covariates can contribute to our knowledge on how posttraumatic stress symptoms arise and are maintained. Objective: This study aimed to identify the most central symptoms of posttraumatic stress and their interconnections, and to explore how covariates such as exposure, sex, neuroticism, and social support are related to the network of symptoms of posttraumatic stress. Method: This study used survey data from ministerial employees collected approxima

SUBMITTER: Birkeland MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5632769 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature