@article{ref1,
title="A prospective study on paediatric traffic injuries: health-related quality of life and post-traumatic stress",
journal="Clinical rehabilitation",
year="2005",
author="Sluis, Corry K. van der and Stewart, Roy E. and Groothoff, Johan W. and Duis, Henk Jan ten and Eisma, Willem H.",
volume="19",
number="3",
pages="312-322",
abstract="Objectives: To examine children's reports of their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following paediatric traffic injury, to explore child and parental post-traumatic stress, and to identify children and parents with adverse outcomes.Design: Prospective cohort study. Assessments: shortly after the injury, three months and six months post injury.Setting: Department of Traumatology, University Hospital.Subjects: Fifty-one young traffic injury victims aged 8-15 years.Main measures: TNO-AZL Children's Quality of Life questionnaire and the Impact of Event Scale.Results: Short-term adverse changes in the child's HRQoL were observed for the child's motor functioning and autonomy. At three months, 12% of the children and 16% of the parents reported serious post-traumatic stress symptoms. Increased stress at three months, or across follow-up, was observed among hospitalized children, children with head injuries, and children injured in a motor vehicle accident. Parental stress was related to low socioeconomic status and the seriousness of the child's injury and accident (hospitalization, head injury, serious injury, motor vehicle involved, others injured).Conclusions: The children reported only temporary effects in their motor functioning and autonomy. Post-traumatic stress symptoms following paediatric traffic injury were not only experienced by the children, but also by their parents.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0269-2155",
doi="10.1191/0269215505cr867oa",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0269215505cr867oa"
}