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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Impact of events scale"”.
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Assessment of trauma symptomatology in adults with intellectual disabilities: validation of the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales
… disabilities experience a higher rate of traumatic life events. However, attempts to research the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology have been hampered by the absence of a validated and suitable assessment tool. The aim of this study, therefore, was to …
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Socio-Cultural Differences In Coping From Stressful Events As A Result of Hurricane Katrina
<p>Hurricane Katrina caused a devastating amount of damage to the Gulf Coast region, but the psychological toll this category 5 storm exacted from the region has received less attention. This study explored how gender, race, SES status and resilience may have influenced the clinical outcomes that …
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College Students' Psychological Well-Being & Resource Use in Response to the Las Vegas Shooting
The purpose of this project is to examine the psychological impact that the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas had on students attending the University of Nevada, Reno. Levels of psychological distress before and after the shooting were collected using the Impact of Events Scale-Revised …
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Impact of community violence on African-American children and adolescents in a high violent crime neighborhood
… including Sexual Abuse Fear Evaluation, Horowitz Impact of Events Scale, and Children's Depression Inventory were administered. Consistent with previous findings, the results indicate that inner-city African-American children are exposed to a considerable amount of community violence. As …
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Posttraumatic stress among children in automobile accidents
The post traumatic symptoms of children (6-16 yrs) involved in automobile accidents were assessed an average of 9 months following the event. Measures included children's ratings of post traumatic symptoms on the Reaction Index, the Impact of Events Scale, and the Diagnostic Interview for Children …
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Facial Expression Discrimination in Adults Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
<p>The present study examined the impact of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) on adults’ ability to discriminate between various facial expressions of emotions. Additionally, the study examined whether individuals reporting PTSS exhibited an attentional bias toward threat-related facial …
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Pediatric Intensive Care Nurses : Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-Like Symptoms
… are not only exposed to routine pressures of demanding roles, but research reveals that they can suffer from severe stress related to exposure to critical incidents. These events can overwhelm an individual's ability for emotional adjustment leading to negative symptoms such as emotional …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Canadian University Students' and Student-Athletes' Mental Health
… typically due to the unique stressors of participating in collegiate sport. During the COVID-19 pandemic and with the implementation of public health response measures Şenışık et al. (2020) discovered that depression and anxiety symptoms were significantly lower in Turkish professional …
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Intrusive thoughts, crisis support and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders in adolescents involved in road traffic accidents
… survey an adolescent sample for the prevalence of PTSD symptoms following a road traffic accident (RTA). In addition, it aimed to examine the relationship between PTSD symptoms and a number of variables which have been suggested by Rachman's (1980) emotional processing theory to be important in …
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Are Vicarious Traumatization Symptoms Present in Physicians?
<p>Research has shown that professionals who serve trauma victims often suffer PTSD symptoms transferred to them through vicarious exposure. This study focused on determining if physicians, a previously unexamined population, experience vicarious traumatization also. Twenty-two male and 15 female …
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Chronic psychological and psychophysiological sequelae among adolescents following a traumatic bus crash
… sequelae among eleven adolescent survivors of a fatal bus crash by means of a multimethod strategy. Measures included a structured DSM-m-R post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) interview using the Diagnostic Interview for Children and AdolescentsRevised (DICA-R), self-report measures of PTSD …
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Exposure Matters: Examining The Physical And Psychological Health Impacts Of Toxic Contamination Using Gis And Survey Data
… the socio-demographics in an ongoing debate of race and class. This thesis extends past the methodological stalemate focusing on the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using survey data in an environmental justice case study of a community in south Florida. This approach …
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Stress in British Army personnel
… is considerable research to date in the field of stress, particularly with respect to questionnaire research. There is, however, a lack of recent research on stress in the British Army which addresses either traumatic or organisational stress. This study considers soldiers' experiences of both …