Open AccessTrajectories of tornado-related posttraumatic stress symptoms and pre-exposure predictors in a sample of at-risk youth.
Author(s) -
Kristina L. McDonald,
Eric M. Vernberg,
John E. Lochman,
Madelaine R. Abel,
Matthew A. Jarrett,
Francesca Kassing,
Nicole Powell,
Lixin Qu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.582
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1939-2117
pISSN - 0022-006X
DOI - 10.1037/ccp0000432
Subject(s) - tornado , poison control , injury prevention , suicide prevention , psychology , psycinfo , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , multinomial logistic regression , demography , logistic regression , clinical psychology , medicine , environmental health , medline , geography , pathology , machine learning , sociology , political science , computer science , law , meteorology
The current study examined how severity of disaster exposure and predisaster individual and family characteristics predicted trajectories of disaster-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in children over 4 years following a devastating EF-4 tornado.