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[Factors associated to the development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder]
R Coronas Borri1, J M Santos López, S Escoté Llobet
1Servicio de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Corporació Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction:
Motor vehicle accidents appear to increase the risk of severe psychiatric morbidity in survivors.
Material And Methods:
We have studied retrospectively a population of 2,885 people who suffered an automobile accident in the city of Sabadell (Spain) in 1998. From these, we randomly selected a sample of fifty people who had developed PTSD, and a control group including the same amount of people.
Results:
We reviewed the clinical and demographic differences in both samples and we found out that female gender and previous psychiatric morbidity are strongly related to the onset and course of PTSD.