Table 5.

Factors predicting post-traumatic stress disorder after cardiac arrest.

• Cardiac-event factors including perception of threat to life, fear at the time of the event, severity of chest pain, illness comprehension, prior myocardial infarction, or cardiac hospitalisation.

• Psychiatric history such as depressive symptoms and prior hospitalisation.

• Lack of social support.

• Personality type: alexithymia, repressive coping style, and type D personality.

• Dissociation at the time of hospital admission and intensity of acute stress disorder.