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Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and television viewing patterns in the Nurses’ Health Study II: A longitudinal analysis

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  • Sun Jae Jung
  • Ashley Winning
  • Andrea L Roberts
  • Kristen Nishimi
  • Qixuan Chen
  • Paola Gilsanz
  • Jennifer A Sumner
  • Cristina A Fernandez
  • Eric B Rimm
  • Laura D Kubzansky
  • Karestan C Koenen

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Introduction: The relation between TV viewing and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is controversial; prior work focused exclusively on whether TV viewing of disaster events constitutes a traumatic stressor that causes PTSD. This study evaluates a possible bidirectional relation between PTSD and TV viewing in community-dwelling women. Methods: Data are from the PTSD subsample of the Nurses’ Health II study, an ongoing prospective study of women aged 24–42 years at enrollment and who have been followed biennially (N = 50,020). Trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms (including date of onset) were assessed via the Brief Trauma Questionnaire and the Short Screening Scale for DSM-IV PTSD. Average TV viewing was reported at 5 times over 18 years of follow-up. Linear mixed models assessed differences in TV viewing patterns by trauma/PTSD status. Among women with trauma/PTSD onset during follow-up (N = 14,374), linear spline mixed models assessed differences in TV viewing patterns before and after PTSD onset. Results: Women with high PTSD symptoms reported more TV viewing (hours/wk) compared to trauma-unexposed women at all follow-up assessments (β = 0.14, SE = 0.01, p

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  • Sun Jae Jung & Ashley Winning & Andrea L Roberts & Kristen Nishimi & Qixuan Chen & Paola Gilsanz & Jennifer A Sumner & Cristina A Fernandez & Eric B Rimm & Laura D Kubzansky & Karestan C Koenen, 2019. "Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and television viewing patterns in the Nurses’ Health Study II: A longitudinal analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(3), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0213441
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213441
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