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| Nancy Kassam-AdamsSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Acute stress disorder symptoms in children and their parents after pediatric traffic injuryFlaura Koplin Winston
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, TraumaLink, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 109:e90. 2002....
Development and psychometric evaluation of child acute stress measures in Spanish and EnglishNancy Kassam-Adams
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma Stress 26:19-27. 2013..Future studies should further assess the impact of differing assessment modes, content coverage, and the use of these measures in children with diverse types of acute trauma exposure in English- and Spanish-speaking children...
Acute stress symptoms in children: results from an international data archiveNancy Kassam-Adams
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:812-20. 2012..To describe the prevalence of acute stress disorder (ASD) symptoms and to examine proposed DSM-5 symptom criteria in relation to concurrent functional impairment in children and adolescents...- A pilot randomized controlled trial assessing secondary prevention of traumatic stress integrated into pediatric trauma careNancy Kassam-Adams
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma Stress 24:252-9. 2011..Both groups improved over time, but 6 months postinjury approximately 10% of each group still met criteria for PTSD, suggesting room for improvement in comprehensive pediatric injury care... - Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom structure in injured children: functional impairment and depression symptoms in a confirmatory factor analysisNancy Kassam-Adams
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market Street, Suite 1150, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:616-25, 625.e1-4. 2010.... - Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in parents of injured childrenNancy Kassam-Adams
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma Stress 22:294-302. 2009..Independent predictors of PTSD severity included prior trauma exposure, parent ASD severity, and parent-rated child physical health at follow-up... - Parent-child agreement regarding children's acute stress: the role of parent acute stress reactionsNancy Kassam-Adams
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:1485-93. 2006..We examined parent-child agreement regarding child acute stress disorder (ASD) and the relationship between parent ASD symptoms and parent ratings of child ASD... - The Acute Stress Checklist for Children (ASC-Kids): development of a child self-report measureNancy Kassam-Adams
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, TraumaLink, 3535 10th Floor, 34th Street and Civic Center, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma Stress 19:129-39. 2006..Results of exploratory factor analyses were consistent with current conceptualizations of acute traumatic stress reactions. The ASC-Kids is a promising measure of child acute stress reactions... - Introduction to the special issue: Posttraumatic stress related to pediatric illness and injuryNancy Kassam-Adams
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:337-42. 2006 - Child and parent reactions to participation in clinical researchNancy Kassam-Adams
TraumaLink and Center for Pediatric Trauma Stress, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 27:29-35. 2005..This study assessed reactions of injured children and their parents to research participation and examined associations with demographic, injury and acute stress variables... - Predicting child PTSD: the relationship between acute stress disorder and PTSD in injured childrenNancy Kassam-Adams
TraumaLink, Division of General Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:403-11. 2004..To examine the prevalence of acute stress disorder (ASD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in injured children and to evaluate the utility of ASD as a predictor of PTSD... - The reactions to research participation questionnaires for children and for parents (RRPQ-C and RRPQ-P)Nancy Kassam-Adams
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 24:336-42. 2002..Investigators should consider including systematic standardized assessment of participant reactions in child clinical research studies... - Persistence of posttraumatic stress in violently injured youth seen in the emergency departmentJoel A Fein
Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:836-40. 2002..To determine if symptoms of posttraumatic stress, initially evaluated in the emergency department (ED) setting, persist over time... - Assessment of pain after injury in the pediatric patient: child and parent perceptionsChiara Baxt
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, TraumaLink, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Pediatr Surg 39:979-83; discussion 979-83. 2004..Because pain was not correlated with injury severity, pain assessment and intervention for all children with traumatic injuries is strongly recommended... - Child coping and parent coping assistance during the peritrauma period in injured childrenMeghan L Marsac
Department of Pediatrics, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Fam Syst Health 29:279-90. 2011..Further research should examine coping during the peritrauma period as it relates to physical and emotional outcomes to inform secondary prevention programs... - Traumatic stress in parents of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unitAndrew Balluffi
Social Work Department, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 5:547-53. 2004..There is strong support from these data for continued attention to supporting parents both during and after a child's PICU admission... - Acceptability and feasibility of family use of The Cellie Cancer Coping KitMeghan L Marsac
Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market, Suite 1150, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Support Care Cancer 20:3315-24. 2012..The Cellie kit is designed to promote coping and decrease distress in children undergoing pediatric cancer treatment. It includes a plush toy, coping cards, and book for caregivers... - Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parentsFlaura K Winston
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
JAMA 290:643-9. 2003..Injury, a leading health threat to children, is also a common cause of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in childhood. Most injured children with PTSD are not diagnosed or treated... - Predicting the future development of depression or PTSD after injuryTherese S Richmond
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 33:327-35. 2011..The objective was to develop a predictive screener that when given soon after injury will accurately differentiate those who will later develop depression or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from those who will not... - Posttraumatic stress and trauma history in adolescents and young adults with HIVJerilynn Radcliffe
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19010, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:501-8. 2007..These findings may inform professionals about the potential impact of the HIV diagnosis on adolescents and young adults, particularly as this may impact participation in medical care and need for mental health support... - Behavioural characteristics associated with dog bites to children presenting to an urban trauma centreIlana R Reisner
Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3900 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6010, USA
Inj Prev 17:348-53. 2011..Recognition of the two distinctive behavioural and circumstantial subgroups of dog bites that emerged can lead to more effective prevention strategies... - Community violence exposure and positive youth development in urban youthCatherine C McDonald
University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Center for Health Equity Research, 2l, 418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4217, USA
J Community Health 36:925-32. 2011..Points of intervention should focus on families, with attention to parental figures in the home and overall family functioning... - Depression, acute stress and behavioral risk factors in violently injured adolescentsMegan E Pailler
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:357-63. 2007.... - Barriers to booster seat use and strategies to increase their useEdith M Simpson
Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 110:729-36. 2002..Furthermore, it gives insight into how parents make safety decisions for their children and the important role of children in this decision-making process... - An integrative model of pediatric medical traumatic stressAnne E Kazak
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Room 1486 CHOP North, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 4399, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:343-55. 2006..To guide assessment and intervention for patients and families, a model for assessing and treating pediatric medical traumatic stress (PMTS) is presented that integrates the literature across pediatric conditions... - The medical traumatic stress toolkitMargaret L Stuber
Semel Institute for Neurosciences and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1759, USA
CNS Spectr 11:137-42. 2006..nctsn.org... - Child Stress Disorders Checklist: a measure of ASD and PTSD in childrenGlenn Saxe
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:972-8. 2003..To assess the psychometric properties of the Child Stress Disorders Checklist (CSDC), a 36-item observer-report instrument that measures acute stress and posttraumatic symptoms in children... - Heart rate and posttraumatic stress in injured childrenNancy Kassam-Adams
TraumaLink: The Pediatric Interdisciplinary Injury Control Research Center, Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychology, Division of Biostatistics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:335-40. 2005.... - Predictive validity of acute stress disorder in children and adolescentsTim Dalgleish
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Br J Psychiatry 192:392-3. 2008..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... - Dissociative symptoms and the acute stress disorder diagnosis in children and adolescents: a replication of the Harvey and Bryant (1999) studyRichard Meiser-Stedman
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
J Trauma Stress 20:359-64. 2007..The implications of these findings for how ASD is applied to youth are discussed...
Research Grants
- A Measure of Acute Stress Disorder for ChildrenNancy Kassam Adams; Fiscal Year: 2002..The Principal Investigator is a newer investigator who is developing a program of research into child and parent post-traumatic stress in relation to injuries and medical emergencies. ..
- Validating a child acute stress measure in English and SpanishNancy Kassam Adams; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Stepped Preventive Care to Reduce the Impact of Acute Pediatric InjuryNancy Kassam Adams; Fiscal Year: 2007..Health record data will gauge adherence with discharge instructions and health service utilization over the 6 months post-injury. ..
- Validating a child acute stress measure in English and SpanishNancy Kassam Adams; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Validating a child acute stress measure in English and SpanishNancy Kassam Adams; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Validating a child acute stress measure in English and SpanishNancy Kassam Adams; Fiscal Year: 2009....