scholarly journals Moderate Depression Promotes Posttraumatic Growth (Ptg): A Young Population Survey 2 Years after the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Bianchini ◽  
L. Giusti ◽  
A Salza ◽  
V. Cofini ◽  
M. G. Cifone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
2009 L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Post Traumatic

Background: Earthquakes can result in a range of psychopathology and in negative and positive consequences for survivors. Objective: To examine the association between clinical aftereffects (anxiety and depressive symptoms) and post-traumatic growth (PTG) among young survivors of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, Italy. Method: 316 young earthquake survivors enrolled in the University of L’Aquila were evaluated two years after the natural disaster. Participants completed three main questionnaires, including Patient Health Questionnaire-9 items (PHQ-9), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). Results: 59.6% of the student sample showed different levels of depression, whereas 13.3% reported anxiety symptoms. In both clinical dimensions (anxiety and depression), gender differences were found: female gender was confirmed risk factor for a clinical post-traumatic response. Personal PTG, demonstrated by 18% of the L’Aquila youths included in our sample, was predicted by moderate levels of depression (O.R. 2.7). In our model, gender, age, and anxiety did not show any predictive value. Conclusion: In a post-traumatic setting, the development of individual cognitive strategies is crucial, whereas after a natural disaster, paradoxically, a moderate depressive condition and the related distress could promote the drive to overcome the psychological consequences of the traumatic event.

Computer-Based Perspective Broadening Support for Appraisal Training

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-108
Author(s):  
Ursula M. Beer ◽  
Mark A. Neerincx ◽  
Nexhmedin Morina ◽  
Willem-Paul Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Multiple Outcome ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Effect Of The Support

Post-traumatic stress affects millions of people worldwide. Appraisal training is an intervention that has been used to decrease the negative effects of a traumatic event. In two studies, the acceptance and effects of technology in supporting appraisal was studied. Study 1, a descriptive study, examined the response to and acceptance of a workshop on perspective broadening with technological support among soldiers and firefighters. Results revealed that both groups evaluated the training as useful and feasible, and both favoured the full version of the tool. Study 2 investigated the effect of the support tool among a student sample in comparison to the paper-based training. Participants followed the training individually. Comparisons between the two groups revealed no significant differences on multiple outcome measures. Behaviour observed during the training suggests that shorter sessions might prove more effective. The findings indicate acceptance of the technology supported training but gives no indication that the effects of the training are improved by technological support.

POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH IN A PROCESS OF REHABILITATAION

2018 ◽  
pp. 57-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Tokhtamysh
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic

This topic is particularly relevant in the context of combat operations in eastern Ukraine against the occupation of the country, where members of the combined forces operation in each day are in a situation threatening the life and risk of getting a military psychological trauma. The article considers the elements and conditions of post-traumatic growth in the context of the rehabilitation process and the social promotion of human development after a traumatic event. The phenomenon of post-traumatic growth can transform the concept of rehabilitation into a term that can be labeled as "proabilitation". The forms of social and rehabilitation support in terms of creating conditions for post-traumatic growth and their effectiveness are explored. The theoretical and applied models with resource elements of the rehabilitation process and post-traumatic growth process are analyzed. It is noted that the traditional model of posttraumatic growth pay attention to the process of rumination and getting control over it and ignores one of the basic symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder, such as uncontrolled visual images (flash backs). The two-component concept of post-traumatic growth, which may be «illusory» or «adaptive», can also be presented as a «compensatory» or «healing» type with regard to the presence or absence of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after reaching post-traumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth occurs in several domains and can be depending on the type of traumatic event experienced, the individual reactions and the psychological qualities of the person. This process is not such that it automatically eliminates the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, the same, rejecting the need for psychotherapeutic and psychosocial care and focusing only on post-traumatic growth can be a false strategy for those who have experienced a traumatic event. Consequently, the phenomenon of post-traumatic growth can be regarded as a powerful resource factor for the rehabilitation process, in particular, as a motivational component of psychosocial assistance.

scholarly journals PTSD Growth and Substance Abuse Among a College Student Community: Coping Strategies after 2009 L’aquila Earthquake

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Bianchini ◽  
R Roncone ◽  
L Giusti ◽  
M Casacchia ◽  
MG Cifone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
2009 L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Post Traumatic

Aim of the study was the assessment of coping strategies, specifically substance use and post-traumatic growth (PTG), in 411 college students two years after 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) was used to assess PTG and one question about substance use (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis) was asked to verify if students had modified their use in the post-earthquake compared with the pre-earthquake period. The 77.1% of college students were exposed to L’Aquila earthquake. The PTGI mean score was 35.23, underlining low positive coping strategies among student community. About substance abuse, the 43.8% of college students reported a marked increase in alcohol use, 7.8% in cannabis and the 15.8% reported an increase in nicotine use in the post-earthquake period. Despite these data, 12.5 % of the students reported a decrease in alcohol use after the earthquake and 17.3% of the sample reported a PTG, showing positive behaviors and attitudes after the traumatic experience of the natural disaster (increase of social relationships, appreciation of new future possibilities, and development of a new deep meaning of life). Inferential analysis shows a strong negative correlation between direct earthquake exposure and PTGI total score. In post-disaster settings, a systematic framework of case identification, triage, and mental health interventions, including the improvement of positive coping strategies, like the PTG, should be integrated into emergency medicine and trauma care responses.

Lifetime mania is related to post-traumatic stress symptoms in high school students exposed to the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Dell’Osso ◽  
Paolo Stratta ◽  
Ciro Conversano ◽  
Enrico Massimetti ◽  
Kareen K. Akiskal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
School Students ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
2009 L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Post Traumatic

scholarly journals Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression among Syrian refugees residing in the Kurdistan region of Iraq

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harem Nareeman Mahmood ◽  
Hawkar Ibrahim ◽  
Katharina Goessmann ◽  
Azad Ali Ismail ◽  
Frank Neuner
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic

Abstract Background Since the Syrian civil war began in March 2011, more than half of the Syrian population was forced to escape from their homes, and more than 5 million of them fled their country. The aim of the present study is to estimate the psychological consequences of this conflict among the refugee population who fled to Iraq. Method In 2017, a team of locally trained psychologists and social workers interviewed 494 married couples (988 individuals) who were Syrian Kurdish refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Validated Kurdish Kurmanji and Arabic versions of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Checklist for DSM-5 and depression section of Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 were used for assessing PTSD and depression symptoms. Results Almost all of the participants (98.5%) had experienced at least one traumatic event and 86.3% of them experienced three or more traumatic event types. The prevalence of probable PTSD was about 60%. Gender, length of time in the camp, area in which participants were grown up, and the number of traumatic event types were significant predictors for the presence of PTSD symptoms. Approximately the same rate of participants (59.4%) experienced probable depression, which was associated with gender, age, time spent in the camp, and the number of traumatic event types. Conclusion PTSD and depression are prevalent among refugees exposed to traumatic events, and various variables play important roles. The pattern of risk factors in this population is consistent with findings from war-affected populations in other regions and should be considered for intervention within this population and more broadly.

scholarly journals Survivors of Trauma and Positive Psychological Attributes: A Correlational Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooja Prasad ◽  
Deepti Swamy
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Correlational Study ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The current paper titled: ‘Survivors of Trauma and Positive Psychological Attributes: A Correlational Study’ attempted to understand the impact of trauma on the variables- Grit, Flourish and Posttraumatic Growth. For the purpose of assessment, the Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory, Grit Scale, Flourish Scale and a revised version of Pennebaker and Susman’s Recent Traumatic Events Scale and Childhood Traumatic Events Scale were utilized. The study was administered on 67 working individuals between the ages 25-35 who have had experienced at least one traumatic event in their life. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to find the relationship between the variables. The results showed that impact of Trauma is negatively correlated with Grit and Flourish and there is a positive correlation between Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth. But there was no significant relationship that existed between the impact of trauma and the variables of Post-traumatic Growth, Flourish and Grit.

scholarly journals QOLP-22. POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii179-ii179
Author(s):  
Laurel Kovalchick ◽  
Kelcie Willis ◽  
Julia Brechbiel ◽  
Autumn Lanoye ◽  
Mariya Husain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Brain Tumor Diagnosis ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Meaningful Relationships

Abstract BACKGROUND Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) refers to the positive psychological change following a trauma and may include a heightened appreciation for life, greater value in meaningful relationships, and/ or spiritual development. A brain cancer diagnosis may be experienced as a traumatic event given the high risk of tumor progression, lack of curative treatments, and ultimately unexpected disheartening prognosis; however, there is limited research on PTG in neuro-oncology. The aim of this study was to determine the profile of PTG in patients diagnosed with primary brain tumors (PBTs). METHODS Patients with PBTs (N = 53, Mage = 48.17, 52.8% male) completed the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) during routine neuro-oncology clinic visits. Descriptive statistics and frequencies for the five factors of the PTGI and PTGI total were calculated. RESULTS PTG was evident across all domains with the most growth reported in appreciation for life and the least growth in new possibilities. Most patients endorsed low levels of growth across the five factors; 29-49% of patients endorse moderate-to-high severity in at least one PTG domain. Lastly, the average total score (M = 46.10) of this sample met the established cutoff for moderate-to-high PTG (> 46). CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that patients with PBTs may perceive positive psychological growth following the traumatic event of a brain tumor diagnosis. Specifically, patients may experience a greater appreciation for life but relatively less growth in new possibilities, perhaps due to the poor prognosis of many PBTs. In non-CNS cancer populations, patients with higher PTG reported better quality of life and lower distress. Further research to expand our knowledge of PTG and the associated factors, including the demographic, medical, and psychological correlates, will better equip providers to promote positive change in PBT patients.

The social and psychological consequences of a natural disaster: A longitudinal study of Hurricane Audrey.

1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Bates ◽  
◽  
C. W. Fogleman ◽  
V. J. Parenton ◽  
R. H. Pittman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
The Social
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