ArticleThe International journal of social psychiatry2023
To what extent do post-traumatic mental health and other problems reflect pre-existing problems? Findings from the prospective comparative population-based VICTIMS-study.
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- The effects of trauma non-disclosure on symptoms of posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depression: findings from a prospective, population-based study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- The effects of potentially traumatic events on the recovery from pre-existing anxiety and depression symptomatology and the risk of PTSD.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
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- Workplace trauma and professional quality of Life in clinical and forensic psychiatry: the CRITIC study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundFindings from prospective studies question the assumption that mental health problems observed in traumatized adults mainly reflect the effects of potentially traumatic events.
aimsAim of the present comparative prospective study is to clarify the extent to which victims of potentially traumatic events with mental health, social, financial, and/or legal problems, already suffered from such problems before these events.
methodData was extracted from three surveys of the prospective VICTIMS-study (T1 = 2018, T2 = 2019, T3 = 2020), conducted with the population-based longitudinal LISS-panel. Differences between victims (
resultsThe large majority of victims with current (at T3) anxiety and depression symptomatology (74%), general mental health problems (71%), partner/family (67%), financial (76%), and legal problems (58%), and lack of support (79%), already had these problems (at T1 and/or at T2). A similar pattern was observed among nonvictims. Of the victims with current probable PTSD (at T3), 87% already had any mental health problem. At T3, among both groups, the incidence of problems was substantially lower than their prevalence. The large majority of victims with post-event mental health, social, financial, and legal problems already suffered from these problems in the past.
conclusionsWhen victims seek help for their problems, professional care providers should be aware that in most cases, as among nonvictims, these problems are chronic/re-current rather than new problems.
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