Article
Psychiatry
Michael A. Kreminski, James A. Courtney, Sean P. A. Drummond, Peter J. Norton
Summary: This study examines the latent structure of posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology and finds that a hierarchical model involving negative affect and anxiety sensitivity can effectively explain the severity of symptom clusters. Targeting negative affect and anxiety sensitivity with specific interventions may offer new avenues for psychotherapeutic interventions.
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Georgina M. Gross, Robert H. Pietrzak, Rani A. Hoff, Ira R. Katz, Ilan Harpaz-Rotem
Summary: This study aimed to explore the risk factors associated with clinically significant worsening of PTSD among Veterans with subthreshold PTSD. The findings revealed that male sex, White race, personality and anxiety disorders, more primary care encounters, physical health disability, and specific baseline PTSD symptom clusters (negative affect and anxious arousal) were associated with symptom worsening. The results suggest that Veterans with subthreshold symptoms seeking treatment for PTSD are at risk for symptom worsening.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Siddharth Bhandari, Matthew R. Hallowell
Summary: This study found that safety climate has a negative relationship with risk tolerance and risk-taking decisions, independent of individual risk tolerance levels. The consistency of these results across diverse cultures suggests that multinational organizations can foster a consistent safety culture. Future research is needed to validate these findings and explore the influence of organizational policies on safety climate and risk-based decision making.
Article
Entomology
Tibor Magura, Roland Horvath, Szabolcs Mizser, Maria Toth, David D. Nagy, Reka Csicsek, Emoke Balla, Gabor L. Lovei
Summary: Urbanization influences the behavior and personality traits of animals, with this study finding no significant differences in exploratory behavior due to urbanization, but male Ocypus nitens beetles exhibiting more exploratory behavior.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ionut Patenteu, Radu Predoiu, Ryszard Makarowski, Alexandra Predoiu, Andrzej Piotrowski, Adina Geambasu, Sarah Adriana Nica
Summary: This study aims to investigate the levels of trait anxiety and risk-taking behavior in athletes, as well as their predictive ability for injury severity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
R. K. Blais, H. S. Tannahill, K. Cue Davis
Summary: Sexual risk taking may be higher among U.S. service members and veterans who have experienced military sexual assault (MSA). This may be due to the increased risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with MSA, which is also linked to sexual risk taking in civilians. Alcohol use plays a mediating role in the relationship between PTSD and sexual risk taking, with higher alcohol use associated with higher sexual risk taking. Male survivors are particularly at risk due to their overall higher alcohol use and engagement in sexual risk taking. Targeting both PTSD symptoms and alcohol use through sex-specific interventions may help reduce sexual risk taking among MSA survivors. Further research is needed to explore the dynamics of these experiences over time and examine other related factors such as alcohol use expectancies and sexual delay discounting.
JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eleonora Sadikova, Kristen Dovgan, Micah O. Mazurek
Summary: Up to 80% of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience sleep problems, which are associated with the severity of ASD symptoms. A study found a unidirectional link between baseline ASD symptoms and future sleep problems, but did not find evidence of a bidirectional relationship. No longitudinal association was found between social reciprocity and sleep problems.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Zach Simmons, Gary Burlingame, Juergen Korbanka, Kevin Eastman, Douglas Thomas, Jeremy Christensen, Michelle Jenson, Michael R. Nadorff, Daniel B. Kay
Summary: The study found that insomnia symptom severity during clinical visits is associated with heightened suicidality, especially suicidal behavior. Patients with psychiatric disorders who experience insomnia symptoms may be at risk for suicide and should be targeted for suicide prevention efforts.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nasrin Abdoli, Nader Salari, Vahid Farnia, Mehdi Khodamoradi, Somayeh Jahangiri, Masoud Mohammadi, Annette Beatrix Bruhl, Dena Sadeghi-Bahmani, Serge Brand
Summary: This study found that individuals reporting recent suicide attempts were more inclined towards risk-taking and impulsive behavior compared to healthy controls. These results support the notion that suicide attempts are less related to premeditation and more associated with impulsive and spontaneous behavior.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Ella K. Moeck, Joshua Peters, Nadine S. J. Stirling
Summary: To comprehensively understand and treat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), it is important to accurately assess how PTSD symptoms affect people's daily functioning. However, the predominant use of self-report functional impairment measures limits our understanding of this issue. This study found a relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and subjective and objective measures of functional impairment in the education domain, suggesting the benefit of using both modes of assessment.
JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Petrus G. J. Janssen, Sabine Stoltz, Antonius H. N. Cillessen, Elisa van Ee
Summary: This study aimed to examine the impact of deployment-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on social functioning in families, as well as the mediating roles of emotion regulation and mentalization. The results showed that emotion regulation problems fully mediated the association between PTSD and family dysfunction in Study 1. Maladaptive mentalization was associated with poor child adjustment. Furthermore, there was a significant difference in PTSD symptom severity between Study 1 and Study 2. These findings suggest that social dysfunctioning may only occur when a certain threshold of PTSD severity is reached and emphasize the importance of emotion regulation in clinical practice.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Sarah E. Prieto, Kate N. Nolan, Jena M. Moody, Scott P. Hayes, Jasmeet Hayes
Summary: Chronic stress is a risk factor for dementia, and in this study, it was found that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity is associated with accelerated cognitive decline in older adults. This association remained significant even after adjusting for Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. It highlights the importance of treating PTSD to maintain cognitive function in aging adults.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Chowdhury Tasnova Tahsin, Vasiliki Michopoulos, Abigail Powers, Jeanie Park, Zynab Ahmed, Kathryn Cullen, Nathaniel D. M. Jenkins, Manda Keller-Ross, Ida T. Fonkoue
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the individual and combined effects of sleep efficiency and PTSD symptom severity on vascular function in young trauma-exposed women. The results showed that although low sleep efficiency is associated with overall vascular function, the severity of PTSD symptoms is specifically associated with microvascular endothelial function, after controlling for age and body mass index.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Ragnhild Bo, Brage Kraft, Rune Jonassen, Catherine J. Harmer, Eva Hilland, Tore C. Stiles, Vegard O. Haaland, Maria E. B. Aspesletten, Hanna Sletvold, Nils Inge Landro
Summary: The study found that anxiety level moderates the effects of attention bias modification on change in clinician rated depressive symptoms in patients with depression. The intervention had a greater effect on patients with higher symptom loads, while it was not effective for patients with lower symptom loads. Further research is needed to validate this finding and explore additional moderators for personalized treatment.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Amy Y. Cameron, Erica Eaton, C. Alex Brake, Christy Capone
Summary: This study found that while PTSD may be associated with exposure to morally injurious events and depression symptoms, exposure to morally injurious events may potentially lead to higher suicide risk among veterans above and beyond PTSD and depressive symptoms.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA-THEORY RESEARCH PRACTICE AND POLICY
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Keith S. Cox, Emily R. Mouilso, Margaret R. Venners, Mahrie E. Defever, Leticia Duviviere, Sheila A. M. Rauch, Thad Q. Strom, Thomas E. Joiner, Peter W. Tuerk
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2016)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Gregory K. Wolf, Gregory J. Mauntel, Tracy Kretzmer, Eric Crawford, Christina Thors, Thad Q. Strom, Rodney D. Vanderploeg
JOURNAL OF HEAD TRAUMA REHABILITATION
(2018)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
J. I. Harris, Thad Q. Strom, Amanda G. Ferrier-Auerbach, Matthew E. Kaler, Lucas P. Hansen, Christopher R. Erbes
Article
Clinical Neurology
Gregory K. Wolf, Thad Q. Strom, Shannon M. Kehle, Afsoon Eftekhari
JOURNAL OF HEAD TRAUMA REHABILITATION
(2012)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Laura L. Meyers, Thad Q. Strom, Jennie Leskela, Paul Thuras, Shannon M. Kehle-Forbes, Kyle T. Curry
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Elizabeth Possis, Thao Bui, Margaret Gavian, Jennie Leskela, Effie Linardatos, Jennifer Loughlin, Thad Strom
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Lisa M. James, Thad Q. Strom, Jennie Leskela
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Helen Valenstein-Mah, Nancy Greer, Lauren McKenzie, Lucas Hansen, Thad Q. Strom, Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, Timothy J. Wilt, Shannon M. Kehle-Forbes
IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Psychiatry
Lori L. Davis, Sandra G. Resnick, Kelly P. Maieritsch, Kenneth C. Weber, Christopher R. Erbes, Thad Q. Strom, Kimberly P. McCall, Tassos C. Kyriakides, Jose M. Canive, Gerardo Villarreal, Raymond G. Murphy, Pamela E. Parker, Noelle M. Berger, Janine Flory, Rachel Yehuda, James J. Peters, Ronald E. Acierno, Ralph H. Johnson, Alina Suris, Geetha Shivakumar, Michael Hertzberg, Loretta Braxton, Edward Hines, Anthony J. Kerrigan, Karen E. Thompson, Michael E. DeBakey, Michael G. Messina, Angel J. Zambrano, William S. Middleton, Gary S. Kutcher, Julie Malphurs, Daniella David, William R. Wolfe
PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION JOURNAL
(2019)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
J. Irene Harris, Thad Q. Strom, Christopher R. Erbes, Josef Ruzekek
WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION
(2019)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Thad Q. Strom, Gregory K. Wolf, Eric Crawford, Melanie Blahnik, Tracy Kretzmer
COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL PRACTICE
(2016)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Thad Q. Strom, Paul Arbisi, Paul D. Thuras, Jennie Leskela, Jacob Finn, Carolyn Anderson, Wayne Siegel
TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2016)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Gregory K. Wolf, Tracy Kretzmer, Eric Crawford, Christina Thors, H. Ryan Wagner, Thad Q. Strom, Afsoon Eftekhari, Megan Klenk, Laura Hayward, Rodney D. Vanderploeg
JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS
(2015)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Thad Strom, Jennie Leskela, Elizabeth Possis, Paul Thuras, Melanie E. Leuty, Bridget M. Doane, Kathryn Wilder-Schaaf, Lisa Rosenzweig
JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS
(2013)
