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Racial differences in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among African American and Caucasian male veterans.

Author(s) -

Jennifer A. Coleman,

Kathleen M. Ingram,

Christina M. Sheerin

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

traumatology an international journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474

H-Index - 37

eISSN - 1534-7656

pISSN - 1085-9373

DOI - 10.1037/trm0000201

Subject(s) - hypervigilance , clinical psychology , posttraumatic stress , psychiatry , african american , mental health , psychology , race (biology) , cluster (spacecraft) , medicine , anxiety , ethnology , botany , biology , computer science , history , programming language

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent mental health diagnoses for veterans. Previous research as well as the minority stress model and transgenerational trauma theories, suggest that race may be associated with PTSD, particularly in veterans. The current study examined whether there were racial differences in symptomology in a sample of combat veterans with PTSD (global and symptom cluster-specific).

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