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Relationship of High PTSD Risk with Severity of ADHD Symptoms While Controlling the Effect of Impulsivity in a Sample of University Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Dalbudak ,
C. Evren ,
B. Evren  and
S. Ozen
E. Dalbudak
Affiliation:
Private practice, Istanbul, Turkey
C. Evren
Affiliation:
Bakirkoy Training and Research Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Research, Treatment and Training Center for Alcohol and Substance Dependence Amatem, Istanbul, Turkey
B. Evren
Affiliation:
Baltalimani State Hospital for Muskuloskeletal Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Istanbul, Turkey
S. Ozen
Affiliation:
Private practice, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

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Objective

The aim of the present study was to evaluate relationship of high PTSD risk with severity of ADHD symptoms while controlling the effect of impulsivity in a sample of university students.

Method

Participants included 271 volunteered university students. Participants were evaluated with the Short Form Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11-SF), the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and PTSD Checklist Civilian version (PCL-C).

Results

Age and gender did not differed between those with the high PTSD risk (n = 224, 82.7%) and those without (n = 47, 17.3%). BIS-11-SF and subscale scores, other than non-planning impulsivity (which showed no difference), and ASRS scores were higher among those with the high PTSD risk than those without. Severity of ADHD symptoms, particularly inattentiveness (IN) score, predicted the high risk of PTSD, together with the severity of motor impulsivity in a logistic regression model.

Conclusion

These findings suggest that the severity of ADHD symptoms is related with the high risk of PTSD, while severity of motor impulsivity may have an effect on this relationship among young adults.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster walk: Co-morbidity/dual pathologies and guidelines/Guidance – part 1
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S134
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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