Keywords: trauma, Resilience, Impact of Event Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, infectious disease, China
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can arise in patients with medical illness. We used 2 Chinese self-report measures to examine features of PTSD, anxiety, and depression in 131 survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome at 1 month and 3 months after discharge from the hospital. Risk factors associated with psychological distress were identified.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine