Perceived Social Support Moderates the Relation Between Forward-Focused Coping and PTSD Symptoms in World Trade Center Trauma Survivors

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• Personal Author:
  Brinkman, Hannah R. ; Brown, Adam D. ; Chernoff, Eva ; Feder, Adriana ; Kowalchyk, Mary ; Pietrzak, Robert H.
• Description:
  Social support and perceived ability to cope with trauma have been linked to severity of PTSD symptoms. While previous literature has highlighted the influence of trauma coping style on PTSD severity, data are lacking regarding factors that may moderate this association. Such information may help inform more personalized treatments for PTSD. Toward this end, we analyzed data from 100 treatment-seeking WTC responders and survivors with full or subthreshold World Trade Center (WTC)-related PTSD who completed measures of perceived ability to cope with trauma and perceived social support prior to treatment initiation. Correlation analyses revealed that higher forward-focused perceived ability to cope (r = -0.24) and perceived social support (r = -0.32) were each associated with lower severity of PTSD symptoms. In a multivariable regression analysis, perceived social support emerged as a significant moderator of the relation between forward-focused coping and overall PTSD symptom severity (β = -0.36). Specifically, among individuals with higher forward-focused coping, those with higher social support had lower severity of symptoms than those with lower social support. Results suggest that interventions to bolster social support among trauma survivors with a forward-focusing coping style may help mitigate severity of PTSD symptoms in treatment-seeking trauma survivors with PTSD symptoms. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Occupational Health Safety September 11 Terrorist Attacks Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Keywords:
  9/11 Author Keywords: PTSD Coping Behavior Emergency Responders First Responders PACT Post-traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Social Support Trauma Traumatic Incident Stress World Trade Center WTC

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• ISSN:
  0022-3956
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; New York ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  159
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067446
• Citation:
  J Psychiatr Res 2023 Mar; 159:130-134
• Contact Point Address:
  Adriana Feder, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
• Email:
  adriana.feder@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Psychiatric Research
• End Date:
  20190831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ea2e1f9148c2dcf0cbf899de05f7d9a24483a2f6577b22d38a1372ae39250027916f9d295b328960e759ab3c1f96a77e2aea0627c1bf5fd14cd41ce3a15d5a10
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230860/cdc_230860_DS1.pdf
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