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Assessment of Characteristics of Intrusive Thoughts and Their Impact on Distress Among Victims of Traumatic Events

 

作者: Angela Liegey Dougall,   Karrie J. Craig,   Andrew Baum,  

 

期刊: Psychosomatic Medicine  (OVID Available online 1999)
卷期: Volume 61, issue 1  

页码: 38-48

 

ISSN:0033-3174

 

年代: 1999

 

出版商: OVID

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

ObjectiveThis study examines the psychometric properties of the Intrusive Thoughts Questionnaire (ITQ) and its utility as a predictor of distress among trauma victims.MethodVictims of three types of trauma, a motor vehicle accident (N = 115), a hurricane (N = 182), and recovery work after an airline disaster (N = 159), completed the ITQ along with the Impact of Event Scale (IES) and the Symptom Checklist-90, Revised (SCL-90-R), at several different time points after their exposure.ResultsThe ITQ was a reliable and valid instrument that was positively related to concurrent measures of distress as well as a predictor of long-term stress responding. Characteristics of intrusive thoughts reflecting the extent to which they were unwanted or controllable, were identified as key determinants of distress.ConclusionsThe ITQ is a useful adjunct to current measures of intrusions, allowing for greater specificity in analyses of responses to trauma. Evaluation of characteristics of intrusions indicated that frequency of intrusions was neither the only predictor of distress nor the best predictor of trauma-related outcomes.

 



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