title: Posttraumatic stress symptoms in parents of children with acute burns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop a model of risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in parents of children with burns.
  
  
  METHODS
  Immediately following the burn and 3 months later, parents reported on their children's and their own psychological functioning and traumatic stress responses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Approximately 47% of the parents reported experiencing significant posttraumatic stress symptoms 3 months after the burn. Our model indicates three independent pathways to PTSD symptoms (i.e., parent-child conflict, parents' dissociation, and children's PTSD symptoms). Additionally, parents' anxiety predicted increased parent-child conflict, conflict with extended family and size of the burn predicted parents' dissociation, and size of the burn and children's dissociation predicted children's PTSD symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that many parents of children with burns suffer from posttraumatic stress symptoms. Interventions that target factors such as family conflict, children's symptoms, and parents' acute anxiety and dissociation may diminish the risk for PTSD.
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. erin.hall@bmc.org
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saxe
authors.forename: Frederick
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stoddard
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaplow
authors.forename: Karestan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koenen
authors.forename: Neharika
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chawla
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.forename: Lynda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires