DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39173.v1
title: CTDA 1005: Posttraumatic Stress and Depression Risk Screening in Children Age 8 to 17 Seen in the Emergency Department for Unintentional Injury and Their Parents, United States, 2003
title: Version 1

description: After pediatric injury, posttraumatic stress and other emotional outcomes in children and their parents often go unrecognized and untreated. This is due in part to the challenges in identifying at-risk children and their parents in the emergency care setting. The aims of this study were to assess the extent to which nurses were able to implement a brief screener for posttraumatic stress symptoms risk within the course of normal care of injured patients, and to assess posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in injured children (aged 8-17 years) and their parents after emergency department care, and the relationship of these symptoms to parent-reported overall recovery.
description: The purpose of this study was to assess psychological symptoms in injured children (aged 8-17) and their parents after emergency department care to examine the relationship between posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms, co-occurrence of symptoms within families, and the relationship of these symptoms to parent-reported overall recovery.
description: The Screening Tool for Early Predictors of PTSD (STEPP) was used in this study at a pediatric trauma center emergency department. Nurses were trained to screen patients with unintentional injuries who met study criteria. A convenience sample of children and parents were enrolled and screened. Approximately 5 months later, participants completed standardized measures of posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms and parents reported on child overall recovery.
description: Variables in Child Trauma Data Archive (CTDA) datasets have been standardized for cross-study analysis. For variable naming conventions, please refer to the CTDA Data Manual.
Study-level metadata: study title and P.I., series ID, methodology (e.g., recruitment setting type)
Traumatic event descriptors: injury type/cause, degree of exposure (i.e., direct or indirect), injury circumstance, year of event, child's pulse at triage
Demographics: child/adolescent age, sex, race/ethnicity; parent/caregiver sex, relation to child/adolescent
Stress items: emotions, cognitions, and behaviors experienced during and following the incident (e.g., isolation, numbness, dissociation, poor memory, nightmares)
Mental health symptoms: depression, anxiety, self-esteem, nervousness
Help seeking items
description: Presence of Common Scales: Screening Tool for Early Predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (STEPP)
Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS)
PTSD Checklist (PCL)
Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D)
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CTDA 1005: Posttraumatic Stress and Depression Risk Screening in Children Age 8 to 17 Seen in the Emergency Department for Unintentional Injury and Their Parents, United States, 2003
description: Children age 8-17 and their parents presenting at the emergency department for treatment of the child's unintentional injury. Smallest Geographic Unit: Country
description: face-to-face interview; 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.Some documentation may reflect a previous version of the study title and P.I. affiliations. For the latest metadata, please see this study homepage.The dataset in this collection includes data from Site 1 as reported in Ward-Begnoche et al 2006.