Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
J Trauma Stress. 2020 Oct;33(5):864-865. doi: 10.1002/jts.22594. Epub 2020 Oct 2.
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.
最近发表在《创伤应激杂志》上的一项研究表明，爱尔兰的创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）发病率高达 17.7%，这可能与 COVID-19 大流行有关（Karatzias 等人，2020 年）。然而，这个数字可能存在偏差，因为 PTSD 诊断的基本要求——即危及生命或严重压力的事件——并未得到满足。在这篇评论中，根据 ICD-11 和 DSM-5 中 PTSD 的定义，对将 COVID-19 相关 PTSD 视为一种诊断提出了质疑。
