School of Psychology, Ulster University, Derry, Northern Ireland.
Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland.
J Trauma Stress. 2020 Oct;33(5):866-868. doi: 10.1002/jts.22592. Epub 2020 Oct 2.
In a recently published study in this journal that used a population-based sample in the Republic of Ireland (Karatzias et al., 2020), we concluded that 17.7% of the sample met the diagnostic requirements for COVID-19-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Subsequently, Van Overmeire (2020) has raised concerns about the validity of our findings, arguing that simply experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic is not sufficient to meet the trauma exposure criterion for a PTSD diagnosis and, consequently, our estimated PTSD prevalence figure was inflated. In this response, we provide (a) an explanation for why the COVID-19 pandemic can be reasonably considered to be a traumatic event, (b) evidence that PTSD in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is a meaningful construct, and (c) an argument for why our estimated prevalence rate is not unreasonably high.
在最近发表于该期刊的一项研究中，我们使用了爱尔兰共和国的基于人群的样本（Karatzias 等人，2020 年），得出结论，该样本中有 17.7%符合 COVID-19 相关创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的诊断要求。随后，Van Overmeire（2020 年）对我们研究结果的有效性表示担忧，认为仅仅经历 COVID-19 大流行并不足以满足 PTSD 诊断的创伤暴露标准，因此，我们估计的 PTSD 患病率被夸大了。在本次回应中，我们提供了（a）为什么 COVID-19 大流行可以合理地被视为创伤性事件的解释，（b）表明 COVID-19 大流行导致 PTSD 是一个有意义的概念的证据，以及（c）为什么我们估计的患病率并非不合理地高的论据。
