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Predictive validity of acute stress disorder in children and adolescents
Tim Dalgleish1, Richard Meiser-Stedman, Nancy Kassam-Adams
1Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Abstract:
Adult research suggests that the dissociation criterion of acute stress disorder has limited validity in predicting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We addressed this issue in child and adolescent survivors (n=367) of road accidents. Dissociation accounted for no significant unique variance in later PTSD, over and above other acute stress disorder criteria. Furthermore, thresholds of either three or more re-experiencing symptoms, or six or more re-experiencing/hyperarousal symptoms, were as effective at predicting PTSD as the full acute stress disorder diagnosis.
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