Background: Growing evidence shows the significance of illness and surgical procedures as
traumatizing stressors. Risk factors are widely investigated in various settings and samples …

The present study examined the number and frequency of dissociative experiences reported
by patients with chronic pain and the association between dissociation and emotional …

Survivors of traumatic events commonly suffer from long‐term pain and related somatic
symptomatology. To test the predominant hypothesis that survivors' pain comprises sequela …

Background While studies with survivors of single traumatic experiences highlight individual
response variation following trauma, research from conflict regions shows that almost …

Abstract Background and Objective Traumatic injuries are amongst the leading causes of
death and disability in the world across all age groups. This systematic review aimed to (1) …

Context Although the subjective trauma exposure criterion was removed from the DSM‐5
criteria set for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), emerging literature suggests that …

Factor-analytic studies of the structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms
have yielded inconsistent results. One of the reasons for the inconsistency may be that …

Presence of injury is often examined as a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
however, results have been mixed regarding the relationship between injury severity and …

Background: Individuals express symptoms of posttraumatic stress in various ways, noted for
example in the many symptom combinations in the diagnostic manuals. Studies aiming to …

BACKGROUND: The course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the month
after trauma exposure has not been determined adequately. Symptom group C …