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cord-325213-e6i6buow	Mak, Ivan Wing Chit	Risk factors for chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in SARS survivors	2010-09-15		.txt	text/plain	4871	254	46	BACKGROUND: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prevalent long-term psychiatric diagnoses among survivors of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Previous reported predictors of acute psychiatric complications include sociodemographic variables [e.g., being a health care worker (HCW)] [11] [12] [13] ; illness-related variables [e.g., the severity of disease and the administration of high-dose corticosteroids [11] , lowest level of arterial oxygen saturation (SaO 2 ) during hospitalisation] [14] ; and psychosocial variables including social support, cognitive appraisal and coping style [13, 15] . In the univariate analysis, variables significantly associated with current PTSD in the predictor block included female gender (P=.019), being a HCW(P=.031), pre-SARS chronic medical illness (P=.044) and having AVN as a complication (P=.035) ( Table 1) . Logistic regression of predictor and association factor block Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that being of the female gender (P=.003), the presence of chronic medical illness before SARS (P=.014) and having AVN as a physical complication (P=.01) were predictors of PTSD at 30 months post-SARS (Table 3) .	./cache/cord-325213-e6i6buow.txt	./txt/cord-325213-e6i6buow.txt