Am J Psychiatry 1993; 150:1872-1874
Copyright © 1993 by American Psychiatric Association
Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in subjects with anxiety disorders
EJ Fierman, MF Hunt, LA Pratt, MG Warshaw, KA Yonkers, LG Peterson, TM Epstein- Kaye and HS Norton
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Trauma histories were obtained from 711 subjects in a large study of
anxiety disorders, with the intent of determining the prevalence and nature
of psychological trauma in this group. Twenty-seven percent of subjects
reported significant trauma; 35% of these (10% of all subjects) met
DSM-II-R criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Subjects
reporting sexual trauma were significantly more likely to have PTSD. The
rate of PTSD was not higher in subjects with panic disorder than in those
with other anxiety disorders.
