Posttraumatic stress responses in children: Awareness and practice among a sample of pediatric emergency care providers

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1261-1267

  Ziegler, Michael F ^a,b   Greenwald, Michael H ^a   DeGuzman, Michael A ^a   Simon, Harold K ^a  

^a Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipatory guidance; Child behavior; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIATRIC WARD; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; INJURY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 25144446876     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1217     Document Type: Article

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