CTDA 1004: Posttraumatic Stress in Youth Age 8 to 18 Seen in the Emergency Department for Violent Injury, United States, 1999-2000 (ICPSR 39170)

Version Date: Jul 22, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Joel A. Fein, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania; Nancy Kassam-Adams, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39170.v1

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Summary

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).

Citation

Fein, Joel A., and Kassam-Adams, Nancy. CTDA 1004: Posttraumatic Stress in Youth Age 8 to 18 Seen in the Emergency Department for Violent Injury, United States, 1999-2000 . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39170.v1

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Funding

Ambulatory Pediatric Association, United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03 HD092720)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

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Restrictions

Access to these data requires a signed Researcher Application which is available to download as study documentation.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1999-01-01 -- 2000-12-31

Date of Collection

1999-01-01 -- 2000-12-31

Data Collection Notes

  1. This 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.

  2. This project is intended to be used in cross-study analysis with other child trauma datasets.

  3. The original study included individuals up to 24 years old; however, this CTDA dataset is restricted to pediatric participants (aged 8 to 18).

  4. Some documentation may reflect a previous version of the study title and PI affiliations. For the latest metadata, please see this study homepage.

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Study Purpose

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.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Panel

Universe

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.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

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

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%)

Presence of Common Scales

  • Immediate Stress Reaction Checklist (ISRC)
  • Child and Adolescent Trauma Survey (CATS)

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Original Release Date

2024-07-22

Version History

2024-07-22 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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