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Sentence completion test in combat veterans with and without PTSD: preliminary findings
Matthew O Kimble1, Milissa L Kaufman, Leah L Leonard
1Boston VA Healthcare Network, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02130, USA. m.kimble@bangor.ac.uk
Psychiatry Research
|February 1, 2003
Abstract:
This study used a sentence completion task to assess semantic choice in combat veterans. Twenty-eight combat veterans with (n=14) and without (n=14) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) filled in the final word for 33 incomplete sentences after receiving a combat prime. The veterans with PTSD completed sentences with significantly more trauma-relevant final words than those without PTSD. Findings are interpreted with respect to current language models and information-processing theories of PTSD.