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TONY WILLIAMS

ARGOSY U

DR. DAVID KOHLES

26 MAY 2018

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Raskind, M. A., Peskind, E. R., Chow, B., Harris, C., Davis-Karim, A., Holmes, H. A., & Romesser, J. (2018). Trial of prazosin for post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans. New England Journal of Medicine, 378(6), 507-517.

This article discusses about how prazosin which is a α1-adrenoreceptor opponent is efficient in lessening nightmare that are linked with post traumatic stress disorder in armed forces veterans. This article is relevant to my research since it illustrates how post traumatic disorder is caused by stressful, frightening and distressing event or after prolonged traumatic experiences by showing how veteran military soldiers have been affected by the disorder due to their stressful life while they served in the military.

This article is very credible for my research as it used a sample of various veterans from various departments of medical centers that deal with veteran affairs that were suffering from chronic post traumatic stress disorder and said they had regular nightmares. This article was resourceful in my research since it demonstrates how prazosin was tested for effectiveness to alleviate nightmares in veterans with post traumatic stress disorder. The article through its experiment on the veterans from various departments was able to establish that prazosin did not lessen stressful dreams or enhance sleep quality. The study however proved that the undesirable event of fresh or deterioration suicidal ideation happened in 8% of the veterans who participated allocated to prazosin as opposed to 15% of those not allocated. This was very relevant to my research since it gave a temporary solution to dealing with the disorder.

Zammit, S., Lewis, C., Dawson, S., Colley, H., McCann, H., Piekarski, A., & Bisson, J. (2018). Undetected post-traumatic stress disorder in secondary-care mental health services: systematic review. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 212(1), 11-18.

This article aimed at estimating the occurrence of clinically unnoticed post traumatic stress disorder in secondary care. As proved by the study, co morbid post traumatic stress disorder is linked with poorer outcomes of other disorders even though it can be treated. The article applied an organized review of studies that monitored post traumatic stress disorder and recorded on post traumatic stress disorder certification in clinical records. According to this article, the occurrence of unnoticed post traumatic stress disorder was approximated and the causes of heterogeneity investigated.

This resource is relevant for my study since it helped me get a better understanding of this mental disorder. The study opened my understanding to the fact that there are a lot of cases of post traumatic stress disorders that go unnoticed. Post traumatic stress disorder that is undetected is common in secondary care, even if we were to take the true value as the lower limit of the estimates that were reported in the study. This was an eye opener as in my research in future, I intend to look for ways to try and solve this problem by reducing the number of undetected post traumatic stress disorder. This source will be applied in my project to examine the result of routine screening for post traumatic stress disorder that are necessary to establish whether such programs should be set procedures for all mental health services.

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