Child Trajectories of Post-Traumatic Stress After Natural Disasters

This project synthesized data across multiple studies of children's post-disaster outcomes to understand patterns (i.e., trajectories) of post-traumatic stress symptom responses and the risk factors for these patterns. The project had two specific aims: 1) to develop an integrative data analysis framework and use it to analyze data pooled from four studies of children's mental health outcomes after hurricanes and 2) to identify trajectories of children's post-hurricane post-traumatic stress symptoms and the risk factors that are associated with these trajectories. The results of this study can be helpful for guiding early identification of children at higher risk of persistent post-traumatic stress symptoms after disasters. The results can also provide helpful information for implementing stepped care post-disaster intervention models.

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