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CQXA · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

Research related to Best Practice: PTSD and Sexual Revictimization has found that revictimization was associated with:

A) Increased viewing of pornographic material
B) Acting out more sexual bondage with strangers
C) Increased substance use across all age groups
D) Obsessive-compulsions associated with cleaning the genitals

Question 2

Common manifestations following a traumatic experience that leaves a nurse thinking a client is experiencing physiologic hyperarousal include which of the following? Select all that apply.

A) Urinates frequently
B) Startles easily
C) Overreacts to others
D) Avoids places associated with the event
E) Has vivid dreams

debra928 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: C
Walsh et al. (2014) reported the following findings: Revictimization was associated with more substance use across all groups. Prescription drugs were associated with college-aged women. For adolescents, posttraumatic stress disorder was associated with an increased risk of drug use. Viewing porn, acting out bondage scenes, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors were not included in the study results.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B, C
After a traumatic experience, the stress system seems to go on permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any time. In this state of physiologic hyperarousal, the traumatized person is hypervigilant for signs of danger, startles easily, reacts irritably to small annoyances, and sleeps poorly. The state of hyperarousal causes the affected individual to be irritable and overreact to others, which cause others to avoid the person. Frequent urination and vivid dreams are not associated with posttraumatic stress disorder. Avoiding places associated with the trauma is common but not associated with hyperarousal.