ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Panom Ketumarn

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Prevalence of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Students: Twenty Three Months after the Tsunami.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 9, Supplement 1, 26-29 August 2008, page 39.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective: To study the prevalence of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder ( PTSD) in the 4th-9th grade students in an affected school 23 months after tsunami. Method: Two-stage screening procedure was used in a diagnostic study design to identify PTSD in the 4th-9th grade students in a school in Takaupa district, Phang Nga province, 23 months after the tsunami. Revised Impact of events Scale was used as a screening questionnaire in the first stage. In the second stage, a psychiatrist would screen student with PTSD according to DSM-IV criteria. SPSS 10.0, inferential statistics and Chi square test were used to analyze the data. Results: There were 436 students participated in the study. Forty of them were diagnosed as PTSD. The prevalence rate of PTSD was 15.1%. The sensitivity, specificity and negative predictive value of Revised Impact of events Scale were 0.75, 0.54 and 0.92 respectively. Conclusion: The prevalence of PTSD in students in a school 23 months after tsunami was 15.1%.

Keywords: post-traumatic, stress disorder, students, tsunami

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Code: 201000027

ISSN/ISBN: 0218-3420

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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