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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Risk factors predict post-traumatic stress disorder differently in men and women. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Risk factors predict post-traumatic stress disorder differently in men and women Dorte M Christiansen and Ask Elklit f Open Access Address Department of Psychology University of Aarhus Aarhus Denmark Email Dorte M Christiansen - dortemc@gmail.com Ask Elklit - aske@psy.au.dk Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 18 November 2008 Received 20 May 2008 __nu.L _ iniw 1.-.A A I I o n-r A A orov 1 A A Accepted 18 November 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 24 doi l0.ll86 l744-859X-7-24 This article is available from http www.annals-general-psychiatry.com content 7 1 24 2008 Christiansen and Elklit licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background About twice as many women as men develop post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD even though men as a group are exposed to more traumatic events. Exposure to different trauma types does not sufficiently explain why women are more vulnerable. Methods The present work examines the effect of age previous trauma negative affectivity NA anxiety depression persistent dissociation and social support on PTSD separately in men and women. Subjects were exposed to either a series of explosions in a firework factory near a residential area or to a high school stabbing incident. Results Some gender differences were found in the predictive power of well known risk factors for PTSD. Anxiety predicted PTSD in men but not in women whereas the opposite was found for depression. Dissociation was a better predictor for PTSD in women than in men in the explosion sample but not in the stabbing sample. Initially NA predicted PTSD better in women than men in the explosion sample but when compared only to other .
