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Neurological, cognitive and attributional predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms after traumatic brain injury
Author(s) -
Williams W. Huw,
Evans Jonathan J.,
Needham Paul,
Wilson Barbara A.
Publication year - 2002
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 - 10.1023/a:1020185325026
Subject(s) - posttraumatic stress , traumatic brain injury , cognition , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry
We investigated the relationship between the reporting of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a community sample of 66 survivors of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and measures of injury severity, memory, insight, and index‐event attributions. Correlational analyses revealed that report ing of PTSD symptoms was related to level of insight and not associated with the severity of survivors' injury, educational background, premorbid or current IQ, or memory impairment. The severity of PTSD symptoms was also associated with external attributions to others of causality for the event.