title: Diagnostic, demographic, memory quality, and cognitive variables associated with acute stress disorder in children and adolescents.
abstract: To date, no studies have investigated factors associated with acute stress disorder (ASD) in children and adolescents. Relationships between ASD and a number of demographic, trauma, cognitive, and trauma memory variables were therefore investigated in a sample (N=93) of children and adolescents involved in assaults and motor vehicle accidents. Several cognitive variables and the quality of trauma memories, but not demographic or trauma variables, were correlated with ASD and also mediated the relationship between peritraumatic threat and ASD. Finally, nosological analyses comparing ASD with indexes of posttraumatic stress disorder in the month posttrauma revealed little support for the dissociation mandate that uniquely characterizes ASD. The results are discussed with respect to assessment and treatment for the acute traumatic stress responses of children and young people.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, United Kingdom. r.meiser-stedman@iop.kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meiser-Stedman
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dalgleish
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yule
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Glucksman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D040701:Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires