caa a22 4500 477036805 CHVBK 20180405111307.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02213562 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02213562 Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in worker's compensation patients attending a work rehabilitation program [Elektronische Daten] [Ellen Burgess, Russell Hibler, Donna Keegan, George Everly Jr.] Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological consequence of traumatic work-related hand injury. In the current study, we investigated this relationship by examining the prevalence, of PTSD symptoms in 121 Worker's Compensation patients enrolled in a work rehabilitation program following a wide array of work-related injuries. Eighty-eight men and 33 women, ranging in age from 16 to 78 (M=40.9,SD=10.2), completed the Injury Adjustment Survey, a measure of PTSD symptoms, psychological/behavioral changes following injury, and desire for psychological treatment. We found that the majority of patients reported difficulties sleeping, a diminished sense of future, loss of interest, and increased anger. Twenty percent of patients endorsed symptoms from criteria B (reexperiencing the trauma), C (persistent avoidance or numbing), and D (inreased arousal) for PTSD according to the DSM-IV. PTSD symptoms did not significantly, relate to age, gender, locations of injury, type of injury, seeing the injury occur, or length of time since injury. PTSD symptoms did significantly relate to psychological/behavioral changes or difficulties and the desire to seek psychological treatment. Discussion of the results proceeds from within a psychotraumatological framework. In general, our research confirmed that PTSD symptoms appear to be a clinically significant problem for patients suffering from a variety of work-related injuries. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 posttraumatic stress disorder nationallicence rehabilitation nationallicence work-related injury nationallicence Burgess Ellen Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut Hibler Russell Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut Keegan Donna Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut Everly Jr. George Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 2/1(1996-01-01), 29-39 1068-9591 2:1<29 1996 2 10769 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02213562 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02213562 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burgess Ellen Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hibler Russell Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Keegan Donna Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Everly Jr George Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, The Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 2/1(1996-01-01), 29-39 1068-9591 2:1<29 1996 2 10769 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer