An initial application of a biopsychosocial framework to predict posttraumatic stress following pediatric injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Each year millions of children suffer from unintentional injuries that result in poor emotional and physical health. This study examined selected biopsychosocial factors (i.e., child heart rate, peritrauma appraisals, early coping, trauma history) to elucidate their roles in promoting emotional recovery following injury. The study evaluated specific hypotheses that threat appraisals (global and trauma-specific) and coping would predict subsequent posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), that coping would mediate the association between early and later PTSS, and that heart rate would predict PTSS and appraisals would mediate this association.

Method

Participants were 96 children hospitalized for injury and assessed at 3 time points: T1 (within 2 weeks of injury), T2 (6

SUBMITTER: Marsac ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5673123 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature