The Assessment of the Relationship Between ADHD and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Child and Adolescent Patients

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 900-903
Author(s):  
Hatice Ünver ◽  
Işık Karakaya
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Clinical Interviews ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Adolescent Patients ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: This study examined ADHD comorbidity in child and adolescent patients who diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Method: Sixty-eight child and adolescent patients with PTSD and 42 child and adolescent patients with OCD were evaluated for ADHD. The sample included 110 patients who were administered structured clinical interviews based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.). Results: Results showed that 22.05% patients with PTSD and 59.52% patients with OCD met criteria for ADHD. Conclusion: The results of our study indicate that no meaningful differences were detected in comparisons between PTSD and OCD groups, in having ADHD as comorbidity.

scholarly journals Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth S. Gershuny ◽  
Lee Baer ◽  
Holly Parker ◽  
Emily L. Gentes ◽  
Alison L. Infield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Treatment Resistant ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

What Lies Beyond Neuroticism? An Examination of the Unique Contributions of Social-Cognitive Vulnerabilities to Internalizing Disorders

Assessment ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Naragon-Gainey ◽  
David Watson
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
Experiential Avoidance ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Cognitive Vulnerabilities ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Extensive research has identified various social-cognitive vulnerabilities for internalizing disorders. However, few studies have assessed multiple disorders simultaneously, so it is unclear whether these vulnerabilities are transdiagnostic or specific risk factors. Their unique associations with disorders are also uncertain, given that they correlate strongly with neuroticism and one other. Psychiatric outpatients completed self-report and interview measures of six disorders (depression, generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder), and personality (the Big Five, neuroticism facets, and four vulnerabilities: anxiety sensitivity, intolerance of uncertainty, perfectionism, experiential avoidance). All constructs were modeled as latent variables using structural equation modeling. All four vulnerabilities were closely associated with neuroticism, loading on its anxiety facet in factor analyses. Furthermore, after accounting for the contribution of neuroticism facets, intolerance of uncertainty and experiential avoidance were not uniquely associated with any disorders, and perfectionism was only related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, anxiety sensitivity accounted for substantial unique variance in several disorders (i.e., depression, social anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and panic). We discuss theoretical and clinical implications of these results.

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