@article{ref1,
title="Four questions nurses can ask to predict PTSD 1 year after a motor vehicle crash",
journal="Journal of trauma nursing",
year="2022",
author="Leroy, Arnaud and Cottencin, Olivier and Labreuche, Julien and Mascarel, Pauline and de Pourtalès, Marie-Atea and Molenda, Sylvie and Paget, Virgine and Lemogne, Cédric and Bougerol, Thierry and Gregory, Thomas and Chantelot, Christophe and Demarty, Anne-Laure and Meyer, Samantha and Warembourg, Frédérique and Duhem, Stephane and Vaiva, Guillaume",
volume="29",
number="2",
pages="70-79",
abstract="BACKGROUND:    The role of nurses in screening for posttraumatic stress disorder is crucial in trauma units.    OBJECTIVES:    To create and evaluate an easy and brief tool for nurses to predict chronic posttraumatic stress disorder 1 year after a motor vehicle crash.    METHODS:    We performed a 1-year follow-up multicenter study from 2007 to 2015, including 274 patients injured in a motor vehicle crash who were hospitalized in an orthopedic trauma unit. Nurses administered the DEPITAC questionnaire. Posttraumatic stress disorder was measured by the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist of symptoms during the first year following the crash. A multivariable logistic regression model was implemented to select items significantly associated with posttraumatic stress disorder to improve the DEPITAC questionnaire. Predictive performance to predict posttraumatic stress disorder 1 year after the motor vehicle crash was examined for these different models.    RESULTS:    Of 274 patients studied, a total of 75.9% completed the questionnaire at 1 year of follow-up. We found that only two questions and two simple elements of the patient's medical record (other injury or a person dying during the crash, perception of vital threat, number of children, and length of stay in trauma) predicted posttraumatic stress disorder 1 year after a motor vehicle crash.    CONCLUSIONS:    The brevity of this evaluation, simple scoring rules, and screening test performance suggest that this new screening tool can be easily administered in the acute care setting by nurses.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1078-7496",
doi="10.1097/JTN.0000000000000638",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JTN.0000000000000638"
}