作者
Hongrong Luo, Xun Hu, Xiang Liu, Xiaohong Ma, Wanjun Guo, Changjian Qiu, Yingcheng Wang, Qiang Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Gregory Hannum, Kang Zhang, Xiehe Liu, Tao Li
发表日期
2012/7/1
期刊
Biological psychiatry
卷号
72
期号
1
页码范围
65-69
出版商
Elsevier
简介
BACKGROUND
The present study evaluated the accumulated changes in hair cortisol levels of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) attributed to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China.
METHODS
Sixty-four female adolescents from two townships who experienced the earthquake were recruited 7 months after the disaster, including 32 subjects with PTSD (PTSD group) and 32 subjects without PTSD (non-PTSD group). Twenty matched adolescents were recruited from an area that was not affected significantly by the earthquake as the control group. Hair cortisol concentrations were measured by the electrochemiluminescence immunoassay in each 3-cm segment of hair sample from the scalp.
RESULTS
There was no significant difference at the baseline hair cortisol level in the three groups before the traumatic event (p > .6). Hair cortisol levels changed over time and differed among groups (p …
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