Approximately twice as many females males are diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, little is known about why report more PTSD symptoms than males. Prior studies have generally focused on few potential mediators at a time and often used methods that were not ideally suited to test for mediation effects. research has identified number of individual risk factors may contribute sex differences in severity, although these cannot fully account the increased symptom levels...

: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as an important public health problem with serious implications. Less well understood is how distinct configurations of adversities carry differential risks for mental health, emotional, and social outcomes later in life.

Traumatic events pose great challenges on mental health services in scarcity of specialist trauma clinicians and services. Simple short screening instruments for detecting adverse psychological responses are needed. Several brief have been developed. However, some limited, especially relation to reflecting the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis. Recently, several studies challenged pre-existing ideas about PTSD's latent structure. Factor analytic research currently supports two...

In the 5th edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-5), symptom profile posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was expanded to include 20 symptoms. An alternative model PTSD is outlined in proposed 11th International Classification Diseases (ICD-11) that includes just six symptoms.The objectives current study are: 1) independently investigate fit ICD-11 PTSD, three DSM-5-based models across seven different trauma samples (N=3,746) using confirmatory factor analysis;...

Abstract Background Despite the widely recognised importance of cultural adaptation to increase effectiveness psychological interventions, there is little guidance on its process . Developed based existing theory, we applied a four-step culturally adapt low-intensity intervention for use in humanitarian settings. Methods The was WHO (i.e. Problem Management Plus, or PM+) with displaced Venezuelans and Colombians Colombia. First, rapid desk review used as an (1) information gathering tool...

Background: Humanitarian workers operate in traumatic contexts, putting them at an increased risk of adverse mental health outcomes. The quality the support they receive from their organization, supervisor, and team members are proposed as determinants illness well-being, via stress-appraisal process. Objective: Grounded organizational theory, we sought to understand relationship between factors, including perceived support, supervisor indicators both well-being among humanitarian...

Background: Despite knowledge about the extensive and often long-lasting consequences of sexual assault, many survivors remain underserved by formal support systems (e.g. medical, mental health criminal justice systems). Reasons for underutilizing services are as diverse themselves, little is known which most why they underserved. Objective: To help organize existing findings on this topic, a systematic scoping review was conducted to identify adult who may be particularly when attempting...

The last decade has seen a rising interest in brief and affordable psychological interventions delivered by lay providers to address the unmet need for mental health care low resource settings. This study sought (i) determine whether implementation of culturally-adapted low-intensity intervention – Problem Management Plus or PM+ is associated with improved among sample 72 Venezuelan migrants refugees Colombian returnees and, (ii) identify context-specific factors determining its...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and more complex posttraumatic symptomatology (i.e., dissociative PTSD [D-PTSD] [CPTSD]) are differently described in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5) International Classification Diseases (11th ICD-11). Although choice system may affect diagnostic prevalence rates treatment outcome, less is known about symptoms their associated risk factors. To investigate both D-PSTD CPTSD Northern Irish military veterans (n = 436)...

Background: Researchers and clinicians within the field of trauma have to choose between different diagnostic descriptions posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in DSM-5 proposed ICD-11. Several studies support competing models PTSD structure according both systems; however, findings show that choice systems can affect estimated prevalence rates.Objectives: The present study aimed investigate potential impact using a large (i.e. DSM-5) compared small ICD-11) description PTSD. In other words,...

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-5) characterizes dissociative subtype posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in terms individual meeting criteria for PTSD additionally reporting symptoms depersonalization and/or derealization. current study aimed to examine whether a profile may include alternative features dissociation it could be differentiated from nondissociative on certain psychopathologies demographics.Data 309 trauma-exposed participants,...

Background: People identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) have been shown to experience more trauma and poorer mental health than their heterosexual counterparts, particularly in countries with discriminatory laws policies. Northern Ireland is a post-conflict region high rates of problems, well significant levels prejudice against the LGB community. To date, no studies compared exposure, social support status students peers.Objective: The present study aimed assess whether was...

Background: The estimated prevalence rate of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is high in trauma-exposed chronic pain patients. At the same time, self-report measures PTSD tend to be over-inclusive within this specific population due symptom overlap resulting potential false positives. There a need for an updated screening tools with proper validation against clinical interviews according recently published 11th revision World Health Organization's International Classification...

Research has shown that robberies in the workplace, particular those bank sector are traumatising events for many employees. However, research acute sequelae of is limited.The present study explores prevalence and predictors stress disorder (ASD) a questionnaire survey employees following robbery.Results show 14.5% (n=22) participants (N=152) suffered from probable ASD, which similar to ASD found other interpersonal assault studies. In addition, number associations were between severity,...

Since the introduction of Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) into 4th edition Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) research has focused on ability ASD to predict PTSD rather than focusing addressing ASD's underlying latent structure. The few existing confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) studies have failed reach a clear consensus regarding dimensionality. Although, discrepancy in results may be due varying prevalence rates, it remains possible that model capturing structure not...

(2020). Revealing what is distinct by recognising common: distinguishing between complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms using bifactor modelling. European Journal of Psychotraumatology: Vol. 11, No. 1, 1836864.