PMID- 8192626
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19940621
LR  - 20190830
IS  - 0005-7967 (Print)
IS  - 0005-7967 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 3
DP  - 1994 Mar
TI  - Psychological morbidity associated with motor vehicle accidents.
PG  - 283-90
AB  - Fifty victims of recent motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), who had sought medical 
      attention after their accidents, were assessed for possible psychological 
      morbidity as a result of the accident. Forty age, gender-matched controls were 
      also assessed with the same instruments. Forty-six percent of the MVA victims met 
      the criteria for current post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) as a result of 
      the accident while 20% showed a sub-syndromal version (the reexperiencing symptom 
      cluster plus either the avoidance/numbing cluster or the over-arousal cluster) of 
      PTSD. Although all MVA victims showed some form of driving reluctance, only 1 S 
      met the criteria for driving phobia. Those MVA victims who met the criteria for 
      PTSD or sub-syndromal PTSD were significantly more likely to have experienced 
      previous trauma, other than a serious MVA, and were more likely (P = 0.008) to 
      have previously met the criteria for PTSD as a result of that trauma. Forty-eight 
      percent of MVA victims who met the criteria for current PTSD also met the 
      criteria for current major depression. Significantly more current MVA-PTSDs had 
      suffered previous major depressive episodes.
FAU - Blanchard, E B
AU  - Blanchard EB
AD  - Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, University at Albany-SUNY 12203.
FAU - Hickling, E J
AU  - Hickling EJ
FAU - Taylor, A E
AU  - Taylor AE
FAU - Loos, W R
AU  - Loos WR
FAU - Gerardi, R J
AU  - Gerardi RJ
LA  - eng
GR  - NIMH MH-48476/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - England
TA  - Behav Res Ther
JT  - Behaviour research and therapy
JID - 0372477
SB  - IM
MH  - Accidents, Traffic/*psychology
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Patient Care Team
MH  - Personality Assessment
MH  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*diagnosis/psychology
EDAT- 1994/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1994/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1994/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1994/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1994/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1994/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 0005-7967(94)90123-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/0005-7967(94)90123-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Behav Res Ther. 1994 Mar;32(3):283-90. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(94)90123-6.