Concept Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Sekhon, B.

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“…Sekhon performed a concept analysis on PTSD using Walker and Avant’s method from a nursing perspective, suggesting the five attributes of a triggering event or events, re-experiencing, fear, helplessness, and loss or lack of meaning [ 31 ]. Similarly, Nayback conducted a concept analysis of PTSD using Walker and Avant’s method indicating the attributes of re-experiencing, hyperarousal, and avoidance [ 35 ].…”

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“…Veterans with PTSD often have episodes of flashbacks or nightmares due to intrusive memories of traumatic events. Re-experiencing or reliving memories is a hallmark sign of PTSD [ 31 ]. This leads to unwanted upsetting memories and emotional distress [ 5 ].…”

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“…In the context of this effortful avoidance, individuals are unable to experience positive feelings and face challenges in trusting others [ 14 ]. In order to avoid other PTSD symptoms that often coincide with one another, those who experience PTSD often engage in avoidance behaviors [ 31 ]. Their efforts to avoid reliving the trauma will include avoiding people, places, and even conversations.…”

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: A Concept Analysis

Chambliss,

Hsu,

Chen

2024

Behavioral Sciences

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs when an individual experiences a traumatic event that exceeds the limits of psychological endurance. Many veterans experience PTSD. PTSD can negatively impact veterans’ quality of life, functioning, life satisfaction, and overall well-being. It is important to analyze the concept of PTSD in the veteran population. This concept analysis aimed to investigate the defining attributes, a model case, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents related to the concept of PTSD among veterans. Walker and Avant’s method was used to guide this concept analysis of PTSD. The results showed that three attributes were determined from the analysis: intrusive memories of traumatic events, feelings of isolation and estrangement, and negative cognitions. PTSD is conceptualized as a collection of symptoms that arise from highly traumatic experiences. The military environment predisposes veterans to traumatic events that should be identified or acknowledged. A better understanding of the concept of PTSD can facilitate the development of effective interventions for the veteran population and enhance their mental health.

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans: A Concept Analysis

Chambliss,

Hsu,

Chen

2024

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“…In Chapter 3, we found that individuals confronted with a violent loss, the loss of close kin, and a low level of education are more likely to develop comorbid PGD, PTSD, and depressive symptoms compared to individuals with other sociodemographic and loss-related characteristics. This means that co-morbidity of PGD, PTSD, and depression symptoms is not exclusively connected to a traumatic loss, as has been previously suggested by, among others, ), van Denderen et al (2015 and Boelen, Olff, and Smid (2019). Therefore, it is important to assess symptoms of all three disorders in bereaved individuals, regardless of the cause of the loss.…”

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“…This information might be beneficial for the further development of models of care such as the stepped model for traumatic grief (Boelen, 2016;Boelen et al, 2019) or the three-tiered approach to bereavement care of Aoun et al (2015). In these stepped-care model, stages of increasing severity in PGD complaints are defined and risk factors and treatment options are offered.…”

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Toward an integrated understanding of traumatic grief: Connecting prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression symptoms in traumatically and non-traumatically bereaved individuals

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While designing and conducting these studies, we became increasingly aware of the importance of an overarching more theoretical question: What would be a suitable view or approach to psychopathology to better understand the similarities and differences of symptoms connected to PGD, PTSD, and depression better? We are aware that there are many approaches to understanding psychopathology, some more statistical, others more conceptual. It is beyond the goal of the dissertation to present them all (Borsboom, 2008; Insel et al., 2010;Wakefield, 1992aWakefield, , 1992b. However, in the following section, we briefly summarize the approaches to psychopathology that we use in this dissertation. The latent construct approach: categorical viewThis approach is the most common understanding of mental disorders in current psychiatry. The latent construct approach assumes that a latent disease entity is responsible for a specific group of symptoms. A well-known example is the symptom 'spitting blood' in a patient with a lung tumor. In this example the lung tumor is the underlying reason for and the latent disease entity behind the fact that the patient spits blood (Borsboom, 2008;Borsboom & Cramer, 2013). In the case of PGD, symptoms like 'persistent yearning' , 'emotional pain' and 'grief-related avoidance' are considered to serve as indicators of the underlying disease/disorder PGD. The latent PGD entity is the common cause that these symptoms (i.e., 'yearning' , 'emotional pain' , and 'grief-related avoidance') are seen in a patient as a coherent syndrome (Robinaugh, LeBlanc, Vuletich, & McNally, 2014).The classification of mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders uses this latent construct approach. In clinical research, the approach is used in the following ways. First, one can study the existence of the latent disease entities or disorders. This means that you divide a study population in participants who do experience the full disorder and those who do not experience the disorder. Following this, you could investigate which predictor is more common in one of the groups, for example: Dyregrov, Nordanger, and Dyregrov (2003);Saavedra Pérez et al. (2017). Secondly, one may study the separate symptoms and their correlation to the latent disease entity. This could be useful when examining the representativeness of a symptom for the latent disease entity, for example when validating a questionnaire or trying to define the cluster of symptoms that may represent the latent disease entity, for example: Boelen and van den Prigerson et al. (2009). Traumatic loss Chapter 2The prevalence of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved individuals following unnatural losses: Systematic review and meta-regression analysis

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Concept Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Abstract: A model case, borderline case, and contrary case of PTSD are provided. Discussion of the importance of a lack or loss of meaning in PTSD is included, along with exploration of transformative learning theory to inform clinical practice for nurses addressing a disruption of meaning.

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