TY - JOUR
T1 - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression Symptoms after Potentially Traumatic Events
T2 - Latent Classes and Cognitive Correlates
AU - Marqueses, José M.S.
AU - Sanz, Jesús
AU - García-Vera, María Paz
AU - Morán, Noelia
AU - Eisma, Maarten C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a PhD scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports under grant FPU16/02976 granted to the first author and a research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities under grant PGC2018-098387-B-I00 granted to the second author.
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PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - People exposed to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) may develop distinct symptom patterns, which may require different therapeutic approaches. We aimed to identify classes of people exposed to PTEs based on the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clusters, anxiety, and depression and to explore which cognitive factors (rumination, worry, and negative cognitions) are associated with class membership. Latent class analyses were conducted to identify subgroups of 258 PTE-exposed Spanish adults. A three-class solution emerged: a resilient class with low odds of all symptoms (n = 188); a partial PTSD class, characterized by partial PTSD clusters, moderate anxiety, and low depression (n = 36); and a high symptom class, characterized by high PTSD, moderate anxiety, and low depression (n = 34). These classes related meaningfully to rumination, worry, and negative cognitions. Distinct symptom patterns of PTSD clusters, anxiety, and depression can be distinguished in people exposed to PTEs and relate to cognitive risk factors of psychopathology.
AB - People exposed to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) may develop distinct symptom patterns, which may require different therapeutic approaches. We aimed to identify classes of people exposed to PTEs based on the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clusters, anxiety, and depression and to explore which cognitive factors (rumination, worry, and negative cognitions) are associated with class membership. Latent class analyses were conducted to identify subgroups of 258 PTE-exposed Spanish adults. A three-class solution emerged: a resilient class with low odds of all symptoms (n = 188); a partial PTSD class, characterized by partial PTSD clusters, moderate anxiety, and low depression (n = 36); and a high symptom class, characterized by high PTSD, moderate anxiety, and low depression (n = 34). These classes related meaningfully to rumination, worry, and negative cognitions. Distinct symptom patterns of PTSD clusters, anxiety, and depression can be distinguished in people exposed to PTEs and relate to cognitive risk factors of psychopathology.
KW - latent class analyses
KW - negative cognitions
KW - PTSD
KW - rumination
KW - worry
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U2 - 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001580
DO - 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001580
M3 - Article
C2 - 36095251
AN - SCOPUS:85147143491
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 211
SP - 141
EP - 149
JO - JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
JF - JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
IS - 2
ER -