Objective: To explore the effect of experiencing a road crash on aspects of psychological meaning.
Design: A 12-month repeated measures prospective design was used.
Setting: Data were collected from admissions to a hospital in central Victoria.
Subjects: Seventy-two injured road crash victims took part in the study.
Main outcome measures: Three measures of psychological trauma and the World Assumptions Scale.
Results: World Assumptions Scale scores did not change significantly over the year, despite improvements in other trauma scores.
Conclusion: This study does shed some light on the psychological effects of road trauma, but further research is needed to create more sophisticated measures.