Objective:To explore the potential categories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients undergoing replantation of severed fingers, and analyze their influencing factors.Methods:From January 2022 to December 2023, convenience sampling was used to select 335 patients who underwent replantation of severed fingers at the Hand and Foot Surgery of Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province as research subjects. The survey was conducted using the General Information Questionnaire, PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version, Event Related Rumination Inventory, Chinese version of the Perceived Social Support Scale, and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised, Short Scale for Chinese. Potential profile analysis was used to explore the potential categories of PTSD in patients undergoing replantation of severed fingers, and ordered Logistic regression was used to analyze the influencing factors of PTSD categories.Results:A total of 335 questionnaires were distributed, and 328 valid questionnaires were collected, with a valid response rate of 97.91%. Potential profile analysis showed that PTSD of 328 patients undergoing severed finger replantation were divided into three latent categories, including low PTSD-high avoidance type ( n=67, accounting for 20.43%), moderate PTSD-high alertness type ( n=178, accounting for 54.27%), and high PTSD-high alertness type ( n=83, accounting for 25.30%). There were statistically significant differences in the number of severed fingers, incidence of postoperative vascular crisis, rumination, perceived social support, and personality trait scores among patients with different types of severed finger replantation ( P<0.05). Taking low PTSD-high avoidance type as a reference, ordered Logistic regression analysis showed that invasive rumination, purposive rumination, and personality types (introversion, neuroticism, psychoticism) were potential influencing factors for the moderate PTSD-high alertness type ( P<0.05). The number of severed fingers, postoperative vascular crisis, invasive rumination, purposive rumination, perceived social support, and personality type (introversion, neuroticism, psychoticism) were potential influencing factors of high PTSD-high alertness type ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:There is significant population heterogeneity in PTSD among patients undergoing severed finger replantation, which can be divided into "low PTSD-high avoidance type", "moderate PTSD-high alertness type", and "high PTSD-high alertness type". Nursing staff should conduct targeted interventions in the early stage based on factors such as the number of severed fingers, whether vascular crisis occurs after operation, level of rumination, personality type, to prevent and improve the occurrence of PTSD.