Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Survivors of Recent Interpersonal Violence


Por: Morris, M, Sanchez-Saez, F, Bailey, B, Hellman, N, Williams, A, Schumacher, J and Rao, U

Ahead of Print: 1 nov 2020
Resumen:
A substantial minority of women who experience interpersonal violence will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One critical challenge for preventing PTSD is predicting whose acute posttraumatic stress symptoms will worsen to a clinically significant degree. This 6-month longitudinal study adopted multilevel modeling and exploratory machine learning (ML) methods to predict PTSD onset in 58 young women, ages 18 to 30, who experienced an incident of physical and/or sexual assault in the three months prior to baseline assessment. Women completed baseline assessments of theory-driven cognitive and neurobiological predictors and interview-based measures of PTSD diagnostic status and symptom severity at 1-, 3-, and 6-month follow-ups. Higher levels of self-blame, generalized anxiety disorder severity, childhood trauma exposure, and impairment across multiple domains were associated with a pattern of high and stable posttraumatic stress symptom severity over time. Predictive performance for PTSD onset was similarly strong for a gradient boosting machine learning model including all predictors and a logistic regression model including only baseline posttraumatic stress symptom severity. The present findings provide directions for future work on PTSD prediction among interpersonal violence survivors that could enhance early risk detection and potentially inform targeted prevention programs.

Filiaciones:
Morris, M:
 Univ Mississippi, Med Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Human Behav, Jackson, MS 39216 USA

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 Univ Int La Rioja, Logrono, Spain

Bailey, B:
 Ohio State Univ, Clin Psychol Doctoral Program, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

Hellman, N:
 Univ Tulsa, Clin Psychol Doctoral Program, Tulsa, OK 74104 USA

Williams, A:
 Univ Mississippi, Med Ctr, Jackson, MS 39216 USA

Schumacher, J:
 Univ Mississippi, Med Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Human Behav, Educ, Jackson, MS 39216 USA

Rao, U:
 Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA USA

 Childrens Hosp Orange Cty, Orange, CA 92668 USA
ISSN: 08862605





Journal of interpersonal violence
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SAGE Publications, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, Estados Unidos America
Tipo de documento: Article
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WOS Id: 000655994000001
ID de PubMed: 33256508

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