unexpected extreme sudden traumatic stressor may cause post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). important traumatic events include war, violent personal assault ( e.g. , sexual assault, and physical attack), being taken hostage or kidnapped, confinement as a prisoner of war, torture, terrorist attack, severe car accidents, and natural disasters. in childhood age sexual abuse or witnessing serious...

BACKGROUND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, is associated with substantial morbidity, and is often not recognised in primary care. AIM To explore whether general practitioners (GPs) have significant gaps in their knowledge of PTSD. DESIGN OF STUDY A controlled study. SETTING Primary care in two Scottish regions. METHOD A validated postal questionnaire consisting of clini...

There is a need for understanding and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in soldiers returning to the United States of America after combat. Likewise, it would be beneficial to finding a way to reduce violence committed by soldiers, here and abroad, who are suspected of having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We hypothesize that even before combat, soldiers with a childhood b...

the purported mechanism underlying the development and progression of cervicogenic headache (ceh) is the convergence of sensory inputs at the trigeminocervical nucleus. this mechanism explains the radiation of pain from the neck or the occipitonuchal area and its spread to the oculo-fronto-temporal region; it also explains the recurrent headaches caused by improper neck postures or external pre...

Purpose : This study aimed to identify the factors influencing professional quality of life intensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in university hospitals.Methods A survey was conducted on 171 ICU hospitals B City, South Korea. used Professional Quality Life instrument, which consists three subscales, namely, compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Data were analyzed...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether (a) Living in the Face of Trauma (LIFT), a group intervention to address coping with HIV and childhood sexual abuse (CSA), significantly reduced traumatic stress over a 1-year follow-up period more than an attention-matched support group comparison intervention; and (b) reductions in avoidant coping over time mediated reductions in traumatic stress. METHOD In a ra...

Background and Objective this study was evaluation of satisfaction, burnout, compassion, and secondary traumatic stress and related factors among residents working in training hospitals. Methods: This descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional study was performed on medical residents working in Imam Khomeini Training Hospital in Sari, Iran, affiliated to Maz...

Primary care professionals (PCPs) are increasingly being expected to identify and respond to family and sexual violence as the chronic nature and severity of the long-term health impacts are increasingly recognized. This discussion paper reports the authors' expert opinion from their experiences running international workshops to prevent trauma among those who work and research sexual violence....

During the 1970s a paradigm shift occurred in the way that psychological trauma was conceived and managed. Until then, it was argued that individuals without a family history of mental illness or other evidence of predisposition, if exposed to a traumatic event, might develop acute psychological distress, but would then go on to recover naturally with no long-term effects, rather like a self-he...