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| Title: | Health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress disorder in inpatients injured in the Ludian earthquake : a longitudinal study | Authors: | Yang, WQ Cui, K Sim, TM Zhang, J Yang, YC Ma, XH |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | Health and quality of life outcomes, 2020, v. 18, 229, p. 1-11 | Abstract: | Background The aim of this longitudinal study was to identify risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in inpatients injured in the Ludian earthquake and examine the relationship between PTSD symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following the earthquake. Methods Three assessments were performed during an 18-month follow-up period. In total, one-hundred forty-seven inpatients of one-hundred seventy-four inpatients (85% of the initial sample) underwent all the assessments. Injured inpatients admitted to the No. 1 People's Hospital of Zhaotong City after a severe earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) were enrolled in the study and assessed using the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian Version, Clinician-Administered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale, and Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Scale. Results At the first, third and eighteenth months after the earthquake, the prevalence rates for PTSD were 23, 14, and 7%, respectively. In a regression model, bereavement, history of major diseases, and severe injury in the earthquake were associated with severe PTSD symptoms. HRQoL was negatively correlated with PTSD symptoms. Compared to that of Chinese norms, participants' HRQoL was significantly lower in all eight HRQoL domains of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Scale. ConclusionsThe findings suggest that a substantial proportion of inpatients injured in the earthquake experienced severe PTSD symptoms and poor HRQoL. Therefore, early preventive programs and interventions should be implemented following disasters, to reduce PTSD and improve HRQoL in injured individuals. |
Keywords: | Injured inpatients Posttraumatic stress disorder Health-related quality of life Disasters |
Publisher: | BioMed Central | Journal: | Health and quality of life outcomes | EISSN: | 1477-7525 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12955-020-01470-5 | Rights: | © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. The following publication Yang, W. Q., Cui, K., Sim, T. M., Zhang, J., Yang, Y. C., & Ma, X. H. (2020). Health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress disorder in inpatients injured in the Ludian earthquake: A longitudinal study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18, 1-11 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01470-5 |
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