Posttraumatic stress disorder in mineworkers
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Date
1999-11
Authors
Stevens, Jan Louis
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University of the Free State
Abstract
The following groups were identified, compared and described in this study:
• The acute PTSD group (N=33), which comprised subjects with acute PTSD at
the first assessment session .
• The acute PTSD chronic group (N=12), which comprised subjects who had acute
PTSD during the first assessment and who had chronic PTSD during the second
assessment session.
• The acute PTSD in-remission group (N=18), which comprised subjects with
acute PTSD during the first assessment and whose symptoms remitted during
the second assessment session.
• The primary acute PTSD group (N=13), which comprised subjects who had a
history of PTSD and who developed primary (reactivated) PTSD by the first
assessment as a result of the earth-fall accidents.
• The new acute PTSD group(N=20), who had acute PTSD for the first time at
the first assessment session.
• The chronic PTSD group (N=16), who had chronic PTSD at the first assessment
session.
• The delayed onset PTSD group (N=3), who had only developed PTSD by the
second assessment session.
• The non-PTSD group (N=121), who did not have PTSD at either assessment
sessions.
When the results are summarized, it appears that certain modulating,
precipitating and predisposing factors in the pathogenesis of PTSD tended to
increase the vulnerability of the development of acute and chronic PTSD. The
results of chapter 8 also indicated that.the course and.severity of the PTSD
symptoms, the comorbid disorders and the associated symptoms tended to differ according to the types of PTSD, namely, acute PTSD, primary acute PTSD (reactived
PTSD), and chronic PTSD.
The results of the above groups - which have previously been summarized (see
paragraphs 3.5; 4.6; 5.7; 6.2; 7.4) - are therefore integrated, summarized and
discussed in terms of i) the profile of mine employees with acute PTSD, ii) the
profile of mine employees with primary PTSD (reactivated), iii) the profile of
mine employees with chronic PTSD, and iv) the profile of mine employees with
delayed onset PTSD. The profiles are subsequently presented in terms of their modulating factors,
stress factors, predisposing factors, the severity of symptoms, cluster B
symptoms, cluster C symptoms, cluster D symptoms, comorbid disorders, and
associated symptoms.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Diagnosis, Miners -- South Africa, Stress (Psychology), Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--University Free State, 1999