A Patient Treated for Symptoms of PTSD Following a Shooting

question 27

Multiple Choice

A patient treated for symptoms of PTSD following a shooting incident at a local elementary school reports,"I feel like there's no reason to go on living when so many others died." Which is the most appropriate response by the nurse now?

• A)"You have lots of reasons to go on living."
• B)"Are you having thoughts of hurting or killing yourself?"
• C)"You're just experiencing survivor guilt."
• D)"There must be something that gives you hope."

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Definitions:

Nested Case-Control

A study design used within a cohort study, where a subset of participants with a specific outcome is compared to a subset without the outcome from the same cohort.

Recall Bias

A systematic error caused by differences in the accuracy or completeness of the recollections retrieved by study participants.

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Controls

Subjects or groups in a study or experiment that are used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment.