在寻求治疗的退伍军人中探索强迫症严重程度:创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 和复杂PTSD (C-PTSD) 之间的横截面比较
Phoebe Howlett1, Theadora Lilian Rose Sudera2, Natasha Biscoe1
1Combat Stress, Tyrwhitt House, Oaklawn Rd, Leatherhead, KT22 0BX, UK.
BMC psychology
|April 24, 2025
概括
复杂的创伤后应激障碍 (C-PTSD) 严重程度与英国退伍军人中强迫症 (OCD) 严重程度较高有关. 在这项研究中,PTSD严重程度与强迫症严重程度没有显著的关联.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
背景情况:
- 国际疾病分类-11 (ICD-11) 现在区分复杂的创伤后应激障碍 (C-PTSD) 和创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD).
- 退伍军人表现出比普通人群更高的精神健康障碍和并发病率.
- 与PTSD和OCD相比,在了解C-PTSD和强迫症 (OCD) 之间的明显关系方面存在研究差距.
研究的目的:
- 调查可能的PTSD和可能的C-PTSD的英国退伍军人之间强迫症严重程度的潜在差异.
- 探索C-PTSD症状严重程度和强迫症严重程度之间的关联.
- 在退伍军人样本中检查PTSD症状严重程度和强迫症严重程度之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 分析了428名英国退伍军人的数据,使用先前收集的数据集.
- 评估社会人口统计特征,军事经验,身心健康和福祉.
- 统计分析以比较可能的PTSD和可能的C-PTSD组之间的强迫症严重程度,并确定强迫症严重程度的预测因素.
主要成果:
- 在可能的PTSD和可能的C-PTSD组之间发现了强迫症严重程度的显著差异.
- 强迫症的严重程度显著增加,随着C-PTSD症状严重程度的增加.
- 更大的C-PTSD严重程度预测了更大的强迫症严重程度,而PTSD得分在PTSD组中没有显示出显著的关联.
结论:
- 在英国的退伍军人中,C-PTSD,特别是自我组织障碍与强迫症严重程度的关联比PTSD更强烈.
- 研究结果表明,C-PTSD症状和强迫症严重程度之间存在复杂的相互作用.
- 未来的研究应该涉及更大,多样化的样本和临床医生管理的评估,以提高诊断准确度.
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