PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -National Comorbidity Survey, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Natural Disaster
14 Apr 2013
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Addresses the question of the extent to which prior stressful experiences, whether or not their of cially quality as traumatic, increase the risk that a subsequent traumatic experience will result in ptsd. Universal - the entire population of young adults were tested, not speci c groups. Primary - nobody had been diagnosed or shown risk factors for ptsd, goal was to reduce incidence. Risk = environmental factors in adolescents, rape/sexual abuse, being a woman, prior exposure to trauma. Measures of data collection (what is measured, # of times, and how) Public school students had participated in an earlier 3-wave investigation. Wave 1 was 6th/7th grade, wave 2 was 7th/8th grade, and wave 3 was 8th/9th grade. Participants were asked whether each of 41 adverse life events had occurred and the number of times it happened and how old they were. Diagnostic assessment of ptsd was based on the instrument employed in the.
