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Ptsd among a sample of french students: A misdiagnosed condition with many implications. preliminary results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

G. Païs ,
L. Romo ,
E. Tarade ,
S. Vigne ,
L. Cassé ,
G. Chaudoye ,
S. Julien Sweerts ,
R. Zebdi  and
D. Fouques
G. Païs*
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
L. Romo
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
E. Tarade
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
S. Vigne
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
L. Cassé
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
G. Chaudoye
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
S. Julien Sweerts
Affiliation:
C2s Ea 6291, France, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, Reims, France
R. Zebdi
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
D. Fouques
Affiliation:
Ea 4430 Clipsyd, Department Of Psychology, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Students often suffer from stress, anxiety and depression (Saleh et al., 2019). However, research on PTSD is scarce among this population.

Objectives

We therefore wanted to explore the presence of PTSD and other psychopathological and psychological variables in this population.

Methods

We recruited 70 students -150 still planned- (22 years old, 70% women, 84.3% in the third year undergraduate) who filled out questionnaires at the university, after ethic committee’s approval.

Results

31.2% show PCL-5 scores in favor of a PTSD. The most frequently mentioned traumatic events (direct exposure) are physical assaults (49.3%), transport accidents (29.4%) and unwanted sexual experiences (23.2%). According to the Mann-Withney U test, if they do not differ from students without PTSD in the number of traumatic events encountered (LEC 5 ns), they show more stress, anxiety and depression (p <.02), more dissociative symptoms (p <.04), less social support available (p = .048), a gap between the importance given to studies as a value and action directed towards this value (p = .002), idem for leisure activities (p =.035), and more rumination (p <.001) and more experiential avoidance (p <. 001). These two latter appear to be powerful processes involved in PTSD, as the PCL5 score is 37% explained by avoidance and rumination, according to linear regression.

Conclusions

These preliminary results tend to show that PTSD should be investigated in students and seems to be linked to higher emotional difficulties, lower academic and social involvement. Rumination and avoidance could be an important therapeutic target.

Keywords

studentsptsdExperiential Avoidancerumination
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S450
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