title: Posttraumatic stress disorder in a general psychiatric inpatient population.
abstract: This study examined the incidence of traumatic experiences and prevalence of lifetime posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of 141 general hospital psychiatric inpatients. Sixty-one percent of the patients reported at least one traumatic event during their lifetime and 28% met the formal DSM-III-R criteria for a lifetime diagnosis of PTSD. A high degree of comorbidity between PTSD and other psychiatric disorders was found, but PTSD was the incident disorder in at least 50% of cases. The experience of trauma and its associated complex patterns of symptomatology suggest that PTSD complicates the process of recovery from another disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: McFarlane
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bookless
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Air
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology*