Post traumatic stress disorder risk factors

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:  Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]

Overview

Risk factors for post traumatic stress disorder includes
===Pretraumatic factors===

Peritraumatic factors

  • Dissociation
  • Interpersonal violence
  • killing the enemy
  • Perceived life threat
  • Perpetrator
  • Personal injury
  • Severity of the trauma
  • Witnessing atrocities

Posttraumatic factors

  • Adverse life events
  • Acute stress disorder
  • Inappropriate coping strategies
  • Negative appraisals
  • Repeated upsetting reminders