Ainamani, Herbert E.; Elbert, Thomas; Olema, David K.; Hecker, Tobias: PTSD symptom severity relates to cognitive and psycho-social dysfunctioning – a study with Congolese refugees in Uganda. In: European Journal of Psychotraumatology. Jg.8 H. 1. 2017
Inhalt
- Abstract
- 1. Background
- 2. Methods
- 2.1. Participants
- 2.2. Procedure
- 2.3. Measures
- 2.3.1. Traumatic and other adverse experiences
- 2.3.2. PTSD symptom severity
- 2.3.3. Impairment of psycho-social functioning in everyday life
- 2.3.4. Working memory
- 2.3.5. Executive functions
- 2.4. Data analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1. Association between PTSD symptom severity and working memory performance
- 3.2. Association between PTSD symptoms severity and executive functioning
- 3.3. PTSD symptoms severity and cognitive functioning relates to psycho-social dysfunctioning
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Disclosure statement
- Funding
- Competing interests
- References