Incidence and predictors of post-traumatic stress symptoms in a cohort of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.

•In one of the larger cohorts to-date examining post-stroke post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we observe a roughly 6.5 % incidence of novel PTSD symptoms (meeting clinical criteria for diagnosis) after an intracerebral hemorrhage, markedly lower from what has been posited in related research on subarachnoid hemorrhage or ischemic stroke.•The presence of PTSD symptoms is associated with poorer functional outcomes; although the latter is associated with stroke severity, disability at onset, stroke prognosis, hospital/ICU course, and other related variables, PTSD symptoms appear to develop independently.•Age and gender, though strong predictors of PTSD in the general population, do not appear to be related in this post-stroke cohort.•As such, there may be other underlying genetic factors, or else uncaptured sociodemographic or post-hospitalization variables that interact to give rise to PTSD symptoms.