1036 Prospective Study of Appraisals, Coping, and PTSS in Children with Injury
PACT/R Series
Study Description
1036 Prospective Study of Appraisals, Coping, and PTSS in Children with Injury
Meghan Marsac
Nancy Kassam-Adams
This study examined selected biopsychosocial factors (i.e., child heart rate, peritrauma appraisals, early coping, trauma history) to elucidate their roles in promoting emotional recovery following injury. Participants were 96 children (age 8 - 13 years) hospitalized for injury and assessed at 3 time points: T1 (within 2 weeks of injury), T2 (6-week follow-up), and T3 (12-week follow-up). Participants completed measures of trauma history and appraisals at T1, coping at T2, and PTSS at T1, T2, and T3. Heart rate was abstracted from medical records.
1036
Meghan Marsac
Nancy Kassam-Adams
3
English
University of Kentucky
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania
- Males or females age 8 to 13 years.
- Child has experienced a potentially traumatic injury within the past 2 weeks and is currently hospitalized.
- Child perceives the event as potentially traumatic assessed by a screening.
- Child and caregiver(s) read or understand English well enough to complete study tasks
- Child's current medical status or cognitive functioning precludes completing assessment instruments.
- No parent or guardian is available to provide consent.
- Child's injury involved family violence or abuse (physical or sexual).
- Child or parent has been arrested or is subject to legal proceedings related to the injury.
- In the index event, child or parent was a perpetrator of violence (or participant in mutual violence)
Coverage
United States
Funding
US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Data
Child exposed to an index potentially traumatic event
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