Psychological distress and physical disability in patients sustaining severe injuries in road traffic crashes: Results from a one-year cohort study from three European countries

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2017-02-01

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PAPADAKAKİ, Maria
FERRARO, Ottavia Eleonora
ORSİ, Chiara
OTTE, Dietmar
TZAMALOUKA, Georgia
Von-der-Geest, Marco
Lajunen, Timo
Özkan, Türker
MORANDİ, Anna
SARRİS, Markos
PİERRAKOS, George
CHLİAOUTAKİS, Joannes

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The current study aimed to follow-up a group of road crash survivors for one year and assesses the impact of injury on their psychological and physical condition. All crash survivors that were admitted to the intensive or sub-intensive care units of selected hospitals in Greece, Germany and Italy over one year period (2013-2014), were invited to participate in the study and were interviewed at three different time-points as follows: (a) at one month (baseline data), (b) at six months, and (c) at twelve months. The study used widely recommended classifications for injury severity (AIS, MAIS) and standardized health outcome measures such as the Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS 2.0) to measure disability, "Impact of Event Scale" (IES-R) to measure Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D Scale) to measure depression. A total of 120 patients were enrolled in the study in all the partner countries and 93 completed all follow up questionnaires. The risk of physical disability was 4.57 times higher [CI 1.98-2.27] at the first follow up and 3.43 times higher [CI 1.43-9.42] at the second follow up as compared with the time before the injury. There was a 79% and an 88% lower risk of depression at the first and the second follow up respectively, as compared with the baseline time. There was also a 72% lower risk of Post-Traumatic Stress at the second follow up as compared with the baseline time. A number of factors relevant to the individuals, the road crash and the injury, were shown to distinguish those at higher risk of long-lasting disability and psychological distress including age, marital status, type of road user, severity and type of the injury, past emotional reaction to distress. The study highlights the importance of a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the impact of injury on an individual and further underlines the importance of screening and treating psychological comorbidities in injury in a timely manner.

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Emergency Medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42732

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INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2016.11.011

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Department of Psychology, Article

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M. PAPADAKAKİ et al., “Psychological distress and physical disability in patients sustaining severe injuries in road traffic crashes: Results from a one-year cohort study from three European countries,” INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED, pp. 297–306, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42732.