TY - JOUR
T1 - The structure of posttraumatic psychopathology in veterans attending primary care
AU - Forbes, David
AU - Elhai, Jon D.
AU - Lockwood, Emma
AU - Creamer, Mark
AU - Frueh, B. Christopher
AU - Magruder, Kathryn M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by grants VCR-99-010-2 from Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development (Veterans Affairs HSR&D) to K.M.M. and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant ( 300304 ). All views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of our respective institutions or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Funding Information:
The Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health is partially funded by the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - This study attempted to extend research indicating that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) factors of Re-experiencing, Avoidance and Hyperarousal are more related to Fear/phobic disorders, while PTSD Dysphoria is more related to Anxious-Misery disorders. Trauma exposure, PTSD and comorbidity data for 668 veteran patients were analysed using confirmatory factor analyses and relative strengths of the relationships between PTSD factors and the Fear and Anxious-Misery factors were assessed. Combining Simms, Watson, and Doebbeling's (2002) model of PTSD symptoms and Krueger's (1999) Fear/Anxious Misery model of mood and anxiety disorders fit the data well. Contrary to previous research, PTSD Re-experiencing, Avoidance and Hyperarousal did not correlate more with the Fear factor; nor did PTSD Dysphoria correlate more with Anxious-Misery. Hyperarousal was more closely related to Fear than was Re-experiencing; however, Avoidance was not. Dysphoria was more closely related to the Anxious-Misery factor than all other PTSD factors.
AB - This study attempted to extend research indicating that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) factors of Re-experiencing, Avoidance and Hyperarousal are more related to Fear/phobic disorders, while PTSD Dysphoria is more related to Anxious-Misery disorders. Trauma exposure, PTSD and comorbidity data for 668 veteran patients were analysed using confirmatory factor analyses and relative strengths of the relationships between PTSD factors and the Fear and Anxious-Misery factors were assessed. Combining Simms, Watson, and Doebbeling's (2002) model of PTSD symptoms and Krueger's (1999) Fear/Anxious Misery model of mood and anxiety disorders fit the data well. Contrary to previous research, PTSD Re-experiencing, Avoidance and Hyperarousal did not correlate more with the Fear factor; nor did PTSD Dysphoria correlate more with Anxious-Misery. Hyperarousal was more closely related to Fear than was Re-experiencing; however, Avoidance was not. Dysphoria was more closely related to the Anxious-Misery factor than all other PTSD factors.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Latent factors
KW - Mood
KW - Posttraumatic stress disorder
KW - Veterans
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U2 - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.09.004
DO - 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.09.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 22036064
AN - SCOPUS:84855505050
SN - 0887-6185
VL - 26
SP - 95
EP - 101
JO - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
JF - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
IS - 1
ER -