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Pre-trauma Salivary Cortisol Levels and General Health Ratings in Relation to Post-trauma Changes in Cortisol and Psychological Distress after UN-service in Bosnia
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- Aardal-Eriksson, Elisabeth (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Klinisk kemi,Hälsouniversitetet
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- Eriksson, Thomas E. (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Psykiatri,Hälsouniversitetet
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- Thorell, Lars-Håkan (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Psykiatri,Hälsouniversitetet
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- Background: The psychobiology of post-traumatic distress is known to some extent, however the pre-trauma psychobiology is not. The aims of the present study were to relate pre- and post-trauma salivary cortisol levels and general health to post-traumatic distress in a Swedish UN-battalion in Bosnia.Methods: Salivary 8 AM and I 0 PM cortisol levels and "General Health Questionnaire" ratings were collected from 145 subjects before the six months' mission, at return and two and six months after mission. During follow-up, the ratings were extended by the "Impact of Events Scale" (IES) and "Post Traumatic Symptom Scale".Results: Low pre-trauma morning and evening salivary cortisol levels were statistically significantly related to high scores in all rating scales six months after mission and to increasing IES scores during follow-up. Low morning and high evening post-trauma salivary cortisol levels were related to high ratings of psychological distress six months after missionConclusions: Pre-trauma salivary cortisol levels seem to be related to posttrauma psychological distress, however not to the extent that salivary cortisol levels in a simple way could be used for predictive screening.
Keyword
- Saliva
- cortisol
- relation to
- rating scales
- traumatic stress
- UN-soldiers
- MEDICINE
- MEDICIN
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- vet (subject category)
- ovr (subject category)
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