Posttraumatic stress disorder after spinal cord injury

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Study determined the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among racial/ethnic groups with spinal cord injury (SCI) and assessed the relationship of PTSD with demographic characteristics, injury-related characteristics, employment, depressive symptoms, and health events. A total of 1,063 participants with SCI were recruited from 3 sites in different regions (Southeastern, Mountain, and Western) of the United States. Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks were oversampled: 369 were non-Hispanic White, followed by 361 non-Hispanic Black, 277 Hispanic, and 56 from other racial-ethnic groups. PTSD was measured by the Purdue PTSD Scale-Revised. All variables were measured by self-report. Multivariate logistic regression models were developed to assess the association between PTSD and multiple variables. Results showed that the overall prevalence of PTSD across all participants was 24.9 percent, and the mean PTSD score of all participants was 34.7. PTSD was associated with depression, frequency of medication use for depression or stress, number of times receiving medical care because of injury in the past year, and race-ethnicity (lower among non-Hispanic Whites).

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