Publication Date
7-1-2022
Journal
Psychological Medicine
DOI
10.1017/S0033291720003773
PMID
33118917
PMCID
PMC9341273
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
1-1-2023
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Author MSS
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Humans, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Depression, Longitudinal Studies, Accidents, Traffic, Prevalence, Motor Vehicles
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This is the first report on the association between trauma exposure and depression from the
METHODS: We focus on participants presenting at EDs after a motor vehicle collision (MVC), which characterizes most AURORA participants, and examine associations of participant socio-demographics and MVC characteristics with 8-week depression as mediated through peritraumatic symptoms and 2-week depression.
RESULTS: Eight-week depression prevalence was relatively high (27.8%) and associated with several MVC characteristics (being passenger
CONCLUSIONS: These observations, coupled with substantial variation in the relative strength of the mediating pathways across predictors, raises the possibility of diverse and potentially complex underlying biological and psychological processes that remain to be elucidated in more in-depth analyses of the rich and evolving AURORA database to find new targets for intervention and new tools for risk-based stratification following trauma exposure.
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