Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
314345 Annales Mdico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique 2012 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

RésuméLe but de cette étude a été de proposer une classification aux styles de coping rapportés par des anciens combattants âgés, 50 ans après les événements vécus, en regard d’une manifestation tardive d’un état de stress post-traumatique (ESPT). Nous avons évalué les stratégies de faire face au moyen de la de la version situationnelle française du Brief COPE et l’ESPT à l’aide de la version française de la posttraumatic check list scale (PCLS) chez 223 anciens combattants de la guerre d’Algérie. Nos résultats confirment ceux déjà observés chez des anciens combattants. Ils montrent un modèle à cinq facteurs saturant sur les 14 stratégies et expliquant 67,5 % de la variance totale. Le Brief COPE apparaît comme un outil adapté de mesure de l’adaptation aux événements traumatisants chez des anciens combattants âgés rapportant des événements potentiellement traumatisants anciens, qui permet de contribuer à une suspicion d’ESPT à partir du score de 52.

The purpose of this study was to propose a classification of coping styles reported by veterans, 50 years after the actual events, compared with a late manifestation of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We have evaluated the coping strategies using the French version of the situational version of the Brief COPE and PTSD using the French version of the posttraumatic checklist scale (PCLS). The subjects were 223 veterans of the Algeria war who completed these questionnaires as part of a broader investigation. Our results confirm general outcomes about coping strategies in veterans. They show a five-factor model of the 14 saturating strategies and explaining 67.5% of the total variance. Strategies have been grouped into active strategies focused on problem solving, avoidance strategies focused on emotions, active strategies focused on the sharing of emotions, avoidance of factors that affect confronting and humour. Furthermore, strategies used by veterans to cope with difficulties encountered decades ago may act as mediators of consequences of a traumatic event. Only two strategies (positive reformulation and coping restricted) show a lack of positive correlation with the recurrence of PTSD and, as such, suggest that they were most effective in responding to war experienced events. The Brief COPE could be consider as a tool for measuring adaptation to traumatic events among veterans, and more generally in the elderly reporting potentially traumatic events, witch can contribute to a suspicion of PTSD from the score 52.

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