The prevalence and the predictive factors of acute stress disorder among survivors of road traffic accidents / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveTo investigate and analyze the prevalence and risk factors of acute stress disorder (ASD) among survivors of road traffic accidents.MethodsA total of 206 participants ( 168 men,38 women) were administrated with the acute stress disorder scale (ASDS) 2 to 23 days after the traffic accidents.ResultsThere was a total of 61 (29.6％) possible ASD patients among all participants.Women had more serious ASD symptoms than men (male36.70 ± 11.42; female41.18 ± 12.58; P＜ 0.05 ),the married's ASD symptom severity was higher than the single's ( married38.37 ± 11.94 ; single/widowed/divorced30.86 ± 8.37 ; P ＜ 0.01 ),people with low degree of education had more severe ASD symptoms than the people who had high degree of education (P＜0.05) ; being elder( r=0.43,P＜0.01 ),having fear / helpless / horror experience of accident ( r=0.21,P＜ 0.01 ) were significantly correlated with the severity of ASD symptoms.According to linear regression analysis,age could positively predicted ASD symptoms ( β =0.29,P ＜ 0.01 ) too.ConclusionASD is a common mental problems among Chinese survivors of road traffic accident,and the main predictive factors of ASD include gender,age,marital status,the degree of education,whether there is fear / helpless / horror experience of accident.