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Consistency of retrospective reports of peritraumatic responses and their relation to PTSD diagnostic status
Author(s) -
David AnnieClaude,
Akerib Vivian,
Gaston Louise,
Brunet Alain
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20566
Subject(s) - psychology , consistency (knowledge bases) , clinical psychology , posttraumatic stress , retrospective cohort study , psychiatry , medicine , geometry , mathematics
Few studies have examined whether trauma‐exposed individuals are consistent in their retrospective reports of how they reacted at the time of trauma exposure, and whether this phenomenon has any implications at the diagnostic level. In a series of three longitudinal studies ( N = 113) with different timeframes, the authors prospectively investigated the consistency of peritraumatic response scores as a function of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic status. Across the three studies, consistency of scores was better among individuals who either did not develop PTSD or who remitted from it than among those whose PTSD did not remit. These results are consistent with the literature suggesting that compromised memory processes are related to sustained PTSD.