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Fig. 4

From: Individual changes in stress, depression, anxiety, pathological worry, posttraumatic stress, and health anxiety from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults from Southeastern Germany

Fig. 4

Perceived changes in specific and non-specific PTSD symptoms during compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic. N=396 adult participants. The symbols indicate the relative frequencies of participants reporting a decrease, no change, or increase in different posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. To determine frequencies of individually perceived decreases, no changes, and increases, a modified version of the 10-item Posttraumatic Symptom Scale (PTSS-10) was used to assess how people feel symptoms have changed during lockdown in comparison to before the pandemic on item level. For each participant, the change values for the single questionnaire items (–2 much less than before corona; +2 much than before corona) were grouped into three change categories (–2.00 to –0.50 decrease, –0.49 to +0.49 no change, +0.50 to +2.00 increase). Jumpiness, fear of recollection, and nightmares were classified as specific symptoms of PTSD, all other PTSS-10 symptoms as non-specific PTSD symptoms [47]

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