Post traumatic stress disorder risk factors

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:  Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]

Overview

Risk factors for post traumatic stress disorder includes
===Pretraumatic factors===

• Anxiety problems
• Prior traumatic exposure
• Prior mental disorders
  • Depressive disorder
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Panic disorder
  • PTSD

Peritraumatic factors

• Dissociation
• Interpersonal violence
• killing the enemy
• Perceived life threat
• Perpetrator
• Personal injury
• Severity of the trauma
• Witnessing atrocities

Posttraumatic factors

• Adverse life events
• Acute stress disorder
• Inappropriate coping strategies
• Negative appraisals
• Repeated upsetting reminders