Stress Disorders, Traumatic - Etiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

MOSAIC (MOthers' Advocates In the Community): protocol and sample description of a cluster randomised trial of mentor mother support to reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant or recent mothers.

25 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent globally, experienced by a significant minority of women in the early childbearing years and is harmful to the mental and physical health of women and children. There are very few studies with ... Read more...

Stress response in female veterans: an allostatic perspective.

29 Apr 2009 Women serving in the military face many sources of stress, such as separation from home and family, sexual harassment and assault, and deployment to traumatic war zones. Some women are vulnerable to the effects of these stressors, resulting in ... Read more...

Poststroke emotional and behavior impairment: a narrative review.

Apr 2009 Emotional and behavioral disturbances are a frequent complication in stroke survivors. They are underdiagnosed, have a high impact on quality of life and are often a precipitant of institutionalization. For the caregivers of stroke survivors, these ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Stress Disorders, Traumatic - Etiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• MOSAIC (MOthers' Advocates In the Community): protocol and sample description of a cluster randomised trial of mentor mother support to reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant or recent mothers. 25 May 2009
• Stress response in female veterans: an allostatic perspective. 29 Apr 2009
• Poststroke emotional and behavior impairment: a narrative review. Apr 2009
• The trauma of insidious racism. 30 Dec 2008
• A guide to the forensic assessment of race-based traumatic stress reactions. 30 Dec 2008
• Sharing the load. Rescuing the healer after trauma. 29 Nov 2008
• Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth in cancer survivorship: a review. 30 Oct 2008
• Psychiatrists strive to help children heal mental wounds from war and disasters. 11 Aug 2008
• Disaster-related mental health needs of women and children. 29 Jun 2008
• The link between childhood trauma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans. 29 Jun 2008
• 'It is still so deep-seated, the fear': psychological stress reactions as consequences of intimate partner violence. 30 Mar 2008
• Secondary traumatic stress in nurses who care for traumatized women. 28 Feb 2008
• Parents' mental health after the birth of an extremely preterm child: a comparison between bereaved and non-bereaved parents. 28 Feb 2008
• Biomonitoring of mercury in patients with complaints attributed to dental amalgam, healthy amalgam bearers, and amalgam-free subjects: a diagnostic study. 30 Jan 2008
• [Extreme life experiences becoming medical: two causes of intermittent hopelessness] 30 Dec 2007
• Symptoms of traumatic stress after coronary artery bypass grafting. 30 Dec 2007
• Patient and caregiver counselling after the intensive care unit: what are the needs and how should they be met? 29 Sep 2007
• The psychosocial impact of Hurricane Katrina: contextual differences in psychological symptoms, social support, and discrimination. 8 May 2007
• The Bali bombings and the evolving mental health response to disaster in Australia: lessons from Darwin. 29 Apr 2007
• Therapeutic effects of glyprolines (PGP, GP, and PG) in rats with stress-induced behavioral disorders. 30 Jan 2007

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Technical information about 'Stress Disorders, Traumatic'

Definition: Anxiety disorders manifested by the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the normal range of usual human experience. Symptoms include re-experiencing the traumatic event, increased arousal, and numbing of responsiveness to or reduced involvement with the external world. Traumatic stress disorders can be further classified by the time of onset and the duration of these symptoms.

Descriptor UI: D040921

Alternative terms: Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Stress Disorder, Traumatic; Traumatic Stress Disorder; Traumatic Stress Disorders; Stress Disorders; Stress Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.080.931;

History Note: 2003

Technical Notes: STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE is also available