Acute Stress Disorder Symptomatology During Hospitalization for Pediatric Injury

W. Burleson Daviss · Robert J. Racusin · AMY FLEISCHER · DAVID MOONEY · Julián D. Ford · Gregory J. McHugo

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OBJECTIVE: To examine and identify predictors of acute stress disorder (ASD) and ASD symptomatology (ASDS) in children hospitalized for injuries. METHOD: Fifty-four youths were assessed while hospitalized for injuries. Dependent variables were parent and nurse ratings of children's ASDS. Independent variables included children's prior trauma exposure and behavior problems, injury severity and permanence, brain injury, injury or death to family/friend(s), parental distress, and child reports of the injury/hospitalization experience as meeting criterion A for ASD. RESULTS: A total of 92.6% of children felt the current experience met criterion A, compared with 64.8% of parents. According to parent questionnaires, 4 subjects (7.4%) met DSM-IV criteria for ASD while another 12 (22.2%) had clinically significant but subsyndromal ASDS. Children's ASDS, as reported by parents, correlated highly with parental distress and ratings of children's prior psychopathology, and modestly with injury severity and family/friend(s) injured or killed. Nurses' ratings of children's ASDS correlated strictly with injury- and accident-related variables, and not with parent ratings of children's ASDS. CONCLUSIONS: Children perceive injuries and hospitalizations as stressful. ASDS is widely though divergently reported by parents and nurses in children hospitalized for injury. Parental distress, children's prior psychopathology, and injury-related factors may be useful predictors of children's postinjury ASDS.

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