Acute stress symptoms in young children with burns.(surveys)

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, January, 2006 by Stoddard, Frederick J.; Saxe, Glenn; Ronfeldt, Heidi; Drake, Jennifer E.; Burns, Jennifer; Edgren, Christy; Sheridan, Robert

Approximately 34% of all people who experience burns in the United States are children (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2002). Although there is growing research literature on the psychiatric impact of burns in children, few studies have included preschool children. This is a considerable gap in the research literature because young children are among the likeliest to be burned (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2002).

Psychometrically sound measures of traumatic stress in preschool children are only now available (Scheeringa et al., 2001, 2003) ...