DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39170
title: CTDA 1004: Posttraumatic Stress in Youth Age 8 to 18 Seen in the Emergency Department for Violent Injury, United States, 1999-2000
title: Archival Version

description: Children and youth, aged 8 - 18 years, were invited to participate in this study after being treated in an emergency department (ED) for an injury resulting from interpersonal community violence. Each invited youth also had to have been living within specified postal codes (urban areas surrounding the hospital). Following the youth's baseline assessment (T1), participants completed between 0 and 4 follow-up assessments. The timing of each follow-up assessment was scheduled according to the relative time since the index (violent injury) event occurred. The average follow-up assessment was conducted at 27 days (T3), 75 days (T5), 199 days (T7), and 467 days (T10).
description: The objectives of this study were to:

assess the feasibility of evaluating acute stress symptoms in the emergency department,
provide an initial estimate of the prevalence, severity, and variability of acute stress symptoms, and
determine whether these symptoms persist over time and whether initial severity is predictive of continued posttraumatic stress weeks to months later.
description: This study contains 112 variables and 185 cases. Primary sections of variables include:

Study identification and administration
Demographics (age (average 13 years old), gender (68% male), race (66% Black/African American))
27-item Immediate Stress Reaction Checklist (ISRC) conducted at initial screening (T1)
13-item Child and Adolescent Trauma Survey (CATS) repeated at T3, T5, T7, and T10
description: Response Rates: Participants were followed-up with at the following four time points:

T3: 3 to 72 days (29.7%)
T5: 38 to 140 days (31.9%)
T7: 112 to 259 days (22.7%)
T10: 253 to 639 days (18.9%)

Some participants did not participate in any follow-up assessments, while others participated in all four. Overall:

98 did not complete any follow-up assessments (53%)
27 completed 1 follow-up assessment (14.6%)
27 completed 2 follow-up assessments (14.6%)
22 completed 3 follow-up assessments (11.9%)
11 completed all 4 follow-up assessments (5.9%)
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
Immediate Stress Reaction Checklist (ISRC)
Child and Adolescent Trauma Survey (CATS)
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CTDA 1004: Posttraumatic Stress in Youth Age 8 to 18 Seen in the Emergency Department for Violent Injury, United States, 1999-2000
description: Children and youth, aged 8 to 18, medically treated in an emergency department for injury from interpersonal violence from a non-family member outside of the household. Smallest Geographic Unit: Country
description: self-enumerated questionnaire; telephone interviewThis project is part of the Child Trauma Data Archives (CTDA). For more information, please visit the CTDA series website and refer to the Collection Notes document under the Data and Documentation tab.This project is intended to be used in cross-study analysis with other child trauma datasets.The original study included individuals up to 24 years old; however, this CTDA dataset is restricted to pediatric participants (aged 8 to 18).Some documentation may reflect a previous version of the study title and PI affiliations. For the latest metadata, please see this study homepage.