Posttraumatic Stress after SARS
subject: Keywords: trauma, Resilience, Impact of Event Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, infectious disease, China
description: 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.
creator: Kitty K. Wu, Sumee K. Chan, Tracy M. Ma
source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
date: 2005
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3201/eid1108.041083
coverage: Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine