Citation

Dalgleish T, Meiser-Stedman R, Kassam-Adams N, Ehlers A, Winston FK, Smith P, Bryant B, Mayou RA, Yule W. Br. J. Psychiatry 2008; 192(5): 392-393.

Affiliation

Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.bp.107.040451

PMID

18450669

Abstract

Adult research suggests that the dissociation criterion of acute stress disorder has limited validity in predicting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We addressed this issue in child and adolescent survivors (n=367) of road accidents. Dissociation accounted for no significant unique variance in later PTSD, over and above other acute stress disorder criteria. Furthermore, thresholds of either three or more re-experiencing symptoms, or six or more re-experiencing/hyperarousal symptoms, were as effective at predicting PTSD as the full acute stress disorder diagnosis.

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