@article{ref1,
title="Predicting children's post-traumatic stress symptoms following hospitalization for accidental injury: Combining the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire and heart rate",
journal="Journal of anxiety disorders",
year="2008",
author="Spence, Susan H. and De Young, Alexandra C. and Kenardy, J. A. and Olsson, Katherine A.",
volume="22",
number="8",
pages="1447-1453",
abstract="This study investigated the utility of combining the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire (CTSQ) [Kenardy, J. A., Spence, S. H., and Macleod, A. C. (2006). Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder in children after accidental injury. Pediatrics, 118, 1002-1009] and children's heart rate (HR; emergency department and 24-h post-admission) to identify children likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms at 1 and 6 months post-injury. Children completed the CTSQ within 2 weeks of injury. PTSD symptoms were assessed with the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV [Silverman, W. K., and Albano, A. M. (1996). Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV, Child Version, Parent Interview Schedule. Orlando, Florida: The Psychological Corporation], for 79 children aged 7-16 years. A combination of the CTSQ plus HR (CTSQ-HR) was better than the CTSQ alone or HR alone at identifying children likely to develop PTSD symptoms. These findings suggest that the CTSQ-HR screen may increase identification of children who are likely to develop PTSD symptoms, enabling development of targeted prevention programs.  <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0887-6185",
doi="10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.02.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.02.007"
}