A research team at the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that people with ongoing stress in their lives are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress symptoms after experiencing a traumatic event.
To better understand what factors might increase the risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms, the researchers followed 2,752 New Yorkers for 30 months, interviewing them two to four times. This way they found even stressors not typically thought of as traumatic, such as financial and interpersonal problems, were “strongly associated” with the likelihood that a person would develop such symptoms in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The conclusions of study were published in the medical journal Epidemiology.
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