Population Prevalence of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Subtype for Young Children in Nationwide Surveys of the British General Population and of Children in Care.
Population Prevalence of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Subtype for Young Children in Nationwide Surveys of the British General Population and of Children in Care.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jaac.2020.12.036
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发表时间:
2021-10
影响因子:
13.3
通讯作者:
Dalgleish T
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作者:
Hitchcock C;Goodall B;Sharples O;Meiser-Stedman R;Watson P;Ford T;Dalgleish T
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition which when left untreated, can have severe life-long consequences for an individual’s psychological, social and occupational functioning. Initial conceptualizations of PTSD were centered on adult presentations. However, the instantiation of developmentally appropriate PTSD for Young Children (PTSD-YC) criteria, tailored to preschool (aged 6 years old and under) children, represents an important step towards identifying more young children experiencing distress. Here we explore population-level prevalence of PTSD-YC, indexed via the Alternative Algorithm for PTSD (AA-PTSD). We utilize population-representative data to test whether application of AA-PTSD criteria, relative to the DSM-IV PTSD algorithm, increases identification of 5-6 year old children with clinical needs, in both the general population (N=3202), and among looked-after-children (i.e., children-in-care; N=137) where the risk of mental health issues is greater. Notably, no 5-6 year old children in the general population sample were diagnosed with PTSD using adult-based DSM-IV criteria. In contrast, AA-PTSD prevalence was 0.4% overall, rising to 5.4% in trauma-exposed children. In looked-after-children, overall PTSD prevalence rose from 1.2% when applying adult-led DSM-IV criteria to 14% when using AA-PTSD. Of trauma-exposed looked-after-children, 2.7% met criteria for DSM-IV PTSD, compared to 57.0% when applying AA-PTSD. In both samples, use of the Alternative Algorithm to index PTSD-YC criteria markedly increased identification of children experiencing functional impairment due to symptoms. Results demonstrate the utility of the PTSD-YC diagnosis beyond at-risk and treatment-seeking samples. Use of PTSD-YC criteria very substantially improves identification of 5-6 year old children burdened by PTSD at the population-level.
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影响因子:
2.5
作者:
Dalgleish T;Goodall B;Chadwick I;Werner-Seidler A;McKinnon A;Morant N;Schweizer S;Panesar I;Humphrey A;Watson P;Lafortune L;Smith P;Meiser-Stedman R
通讯作者:
Meiser-Stedman R
影响因子:
10.5
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jaac.2010.05.017
发表时间:
2010-10
影响因子:
13.3
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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