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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as assault, combat, disaster, or a serious accident, and is characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, and ongoing anxiety. Viewed through Preventive Medici…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 60× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-3585 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as assault, combat, disaster, or a serious accident, and is characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, and ongoing anxiety. Viewed through Preventive Medicine And Care, the emphasis falls not only on treatment but on reducing risk, identifying vulnerable individuals early, and limiting long-term harm. Preventive approaches span primary prevention that reduces exposure to trauma or strengthens resilience, secondary prevention through early screening and intervention after a traumatic event, and tertiary prevention that minimizes chronic impairment in those already affected. Because PTSD frequently co-occurs with depression, substance use, and physical health problems, integrated and community-based care is often emphasized. Research in this journal and across related OpenAccessPub titles reflects these concerns, including mental stress among adolescents seeking asylum, concordance of stress among married couples in a community setting, the relationship between trauma-related psychotic reactions and PTSD symptoms, feasibility of supporting families living alongside veterans with PTSD, and controlled studies of somatosensory stimulation aimed at reducing stress-related cortisol and anxiety.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Mental Health in The Context of The COVID 19 Pandemic

Yadav RavinderCorresponding author
Medical Social Welfare Officer Department of Medical Record Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3367
2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 60 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Preventive Medicine And Care (ISSN 2474-3585).

Journal editorial board
Heejung Kim · South Korea Monica Wang · United States Siddhartha Jonnalagadda · United States

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