Prevalence and Incidence of Acute stress disorder
Acute stress disorder Prevalence: Book Excerpts
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Posttraumatic stress disorder:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
PTSD occurs in response to an extremely distressing event, including a serious threat of harm to the patient or his family, such as war, abuse, or violent crime. It may be triggered by sudden destruction of his home or community by a bombing, fire, flood, tornado, earthquake, or similar disaster. It may also follow witnessing the death or serious injury of another person by torture, in a death camp, by natural disaster, or by a motor vehicle or airplane crash.
Preexisting psychopathology can predispose some patients to this disorder, but anyone can develop it, especially if the stressor is extreme.
Any person who has experienced traumatic relocation due to such events as rioting or other civil strife, extreme natural disasters, or war should be assessed for signs of PTSD.
PTSD can occur at any age. Most cases resolve 3 months after the traumatic event, but some cases can last for years.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Acute stress disorder usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Acute stress disorder at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Acute stress disorder refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Acute stress disorder diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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