Posttraumatic Stress after SARS

Abstract

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can arise in patients with medical illness. We used 2 Chinese self-report measures to examine features of PTSD, anxiety, and depression in 131 survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome at 1 month and 3 months after discharge from the hospital. Risk factors associated with psychological distress were identified.

Keywords

• Keywords: trauma
• resilience
• Impact of Event Scale
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
• infectious disease
• China