Adolescent survivors of massive childhood trauma in cambodia: Life events and current symptoms

✍ Scribed by George M. Realmuto; Ann Masten; Linda Flies Carole; Jon Hubbard; Andrea Groteluschen; Bunkhean Chhun

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 559 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490050408

✦ Synopsis

Cambodian adolescents who survived massive trauma as children were studied to eramine the relation of current trauma symptoms to ser, age, trauma eaposure, and other current symptoms. Exposure to traumatic life events was expected to be very high, to relate to age and to other symptoms of current psychological functioning. Questionnaires assessed traumatic life events, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric symptoms, and current functioning-Results document high leveh of stress exposure and current trauma symptoms. Based on self-reports of PTSD symptoms, 37% of the subjects were estimated to fulfill DSM-III-R criteria for PTSD. Trauma symptoms were correlated with exposure (r = .31), although not with symptoms of depressed mood, anxiety, or dissociation. Age was related to high leveh of recollected trauma exposure (r = 3). Further studies are needed to identifj, factors associnted with better outcomes and to plot the differential course of PTSD symptom clusters over time.