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      The Methodological Problem of Identifying Criterion A Traumatic Events During the COVID‐19 Era: A Commentary on Karatzias et al. (2020)

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          A recent study published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress demonstrated that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rates in Ireland are as high as 17.7% and that this could be related to the COVID‐19 pandemic (Karatzias et al., 2020). However, this number is probably skewed, as the fundamental requirement for a PTSD diagnosis—namely, a life‐threatening or severely stressful event—was not fulfilled. In this comment, the consideration of COVID‐19–related PTSD to represent a diagnosis is questioned based on the definitions of PTSD in the ICD‐ 11 and DSM‐ 5.

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          The psychological impact of the SARS epidemic on hospital employees in China: exposure, risk perception, and altruistic acceptance of risk.

          Ping Wu, Yunyun Fang, Zhiqiang Guan … (2009)
          We examined the psychological impact of the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on hospital employees in Beijing, China.
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            Long-term psychiatric morbidities among SARS survivors

            Ivan Mak, Chung Chu, Pey Pan … (2009)
            Objective Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was the first massive infectious disease outbreak of the 21st century. However, it is unlikely that this outbreak will be the last. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term psychiatric morbidities in survivors of SARS. Method This is a cohort study designed to investigate psychiatric complications among SARS survivors treated in the United Christian Hospital 30 months after the SARS outbreak. Psychiatric morbidities were assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, the Impact of Events Scale–Revised and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Functional outcomes were assessed by the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey. Results Ninety subjects were recruited, yielding a response rate of 96.8%. Post-SARS cumulative incidence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders was 58.9%. Current prevalence for any psychiatric disorder at 30 months post-SARS was 33.3%. One-fourth of the patients had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and 15.6% had depressive disorders. Conclusion The outbreak of SARS can be regarded as a mental health catastrophe. PTSD was the most prevalent long-term psychiatric condition, followed by depressive disorders. Our results highlight the need to enhance preparedness and competence of health care professionals in detecting and managing the psychological sequelae of future comparable infectious disease outbreaks.
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              The International Trauma Questionnaire: development of a self-report measure of ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD.

              M Cloitre, M Shevlin, C R Brewin … (2018)
              The purpose of this study was to finalize the development of the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ), a self-report diagnostic measure of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD), as defined in the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
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                Roel Van Overmeire:
                ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3127-5683
                Roel.van.overmeire@vub.be
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Trauma Stress
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Trauma Stress
                Journal ID (doi): 10.1002/(ISSN)1573-6598
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JTS
                Title: Journal of Traumatic Stress
                Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )
                ISSN (Print): 0894-9867
                ISSN (Electronic): 1573-6598
                Publication date (Electronic): 02 October 2020
                Publication date (Print): October 2020
                Volume: 33
                Issue: 5 ( doiID: 10.1002/jts.v33.5 )
                Pages: 864-865
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels Belgium
                Author notes
                [*] [* ]Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Roel Van Overmeire, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1090 Jette. E‐mail: Roel.van.overmeire@ 123456vub.be

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                Publisher ID: JTS22594
                DOI: 10.1002/jts.22594
                PMC ID: 7675711
                PubMed ID: 33007131
                SO-VID: 76ba743f-132d-453e-8cd3-d4fa2b33cfff
                Copyright © © 2020 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
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                This article is being made freely available through PubMed Central as part of the COVID-19 public health emergency response. It can be used for unrestricted research re-use and analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source, for the duration of the public health emergency.

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                Date received : 11 August 2020
                Date revision received : 14 September 2020
                Date accepted : 16 September 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Pages: 2, Words: 1407
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                Subject: Commentary
                Subject: Commentaries
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                cover-date October 2020
                details-of-publishers-convertor Converter:WILEY_ML3GV2_TO_JATSPMC version:5.9.4 mode:remove_FC converted:19.11.2020

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