PMID- 8952120
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970127
LR  - 20190830
IS  - 0005-7967 (Print)
IS  - 0005-7967 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 10
DP  - 1996 Oct
TI  - One-year prospective follow-up of motor vehicle accident victims.
PG  - 775-86
AB  - One-hundred and thirty-two victims of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), who sought 
      medical attention as a result of the MVA, were assessed at three points in time: 
      1-4 months post-MVA, 6 months later, and 12 months later. Of the 48 who met the 
      full criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) initially, half had 
      remitted at least in part by the 6-month follow-up point and two-thirds had 
      remitted by the 1-yr follow-up. Using logistic regression, 3 variables combined 
      to correctly identify 79% of remitters and non-remitters at the 12-month 
      follow-up point: initial scores on the irritability and foreshortened future 
      symptoms of PTSD and the initial degree of vulnerability the subject felt in a 
      motor vehicle after the MVA. Four variables combined to predict 64% of the 
      variance in the degree of post-traumatic stress symptoms at 12 months: presence 
      of alcohol abuse and/or an Axis-II disorder at the time of the initial assessment 
      as well as the total scores on the hyperarousal and on avoidance symptoms of PTSD 
      present at the initial post-MVA assessment.
FAU - Blanchard, E B
AU  - Blanchard EB
AD  - Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, University at Albany-SUNY 12203, USA.
FAU - Hickling, E J
AU  - Hickling EJ
FAU - Barton, K A
AU  - Barton KA
FAU - Taylor, A E
AU  - Taylor AE
FAU - Loos, W R
AU  - Loos WR
FAU - Jones-Alexander, J
AU  - Jones-Alexander J
LA  - eng
GR  - 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  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - Odds Ratio
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis/*epidemiology/*etiology
EDAT- 1996/10/01 00:00
MHDA- 1996/10/01 00:01
CRDT- 1996/10/01 00:00
PHST- 1996/10/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1996/10/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1996/10/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 0005-7967(96)00038-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/0005-7967(96)00038-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Behav Res Ther. 1996 Oct;34(10):775-86. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(96)00038-1.