Children’s Knowledge About Parental Exposure to Trauma

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• Personal Author:
  Addolorato, Amanda ; Duarte, Cristiane S. ; Eisenberg, Ruth ; Hoven, Christina W. ; Musa, George J. ; Shen, Sa
• Description:
  The study aims to determine children's knowledge about their parents' exposure to traumatic events and factors associated with such knowledge. Children (ages 9-16) and their parents with a range of exposures to trauma, including the 9/11 attack, answered questions about parental exposure to life threatening events. A child's accurate knowledge about parental exposure was defined as an agreement between parent and child on lifetime presence or absence of traumatic events. The present study findings suggest that children were often unaware about their parents' exposures to life threatening events. Knowledge about fathers' exposure was more accurate when the child was older, fathers had direct exposure to 9/11, or had been a first responder. Children of mothers with depression were less likely to have accurate knowledge about their mothers' exposure compared to children of non-depressed mothers. Overall, findings indicated that children are generally unaware of parental (particularly maternal) exposure to traumatic events. The next step is to determine how knowledge about parental trauma exposure impacts children. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Family Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Public Health Safety September 11 Terrorist Attacks Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Adolescents Children Families First Responders Mental Health Public Health Trauma Exposure Traumatic Incident Stress World Trade Center WTC
• ISSN:
  1936-1521
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067110
• Citation:
  J Child Adolesc Trauma 2019 Mar; 12(1):31-35
• Contact Point Address:
  Cristiane S. Duarte, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 43, New York, NY, 10032, USA
• Email:
  duartec@nyspi.columbia.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma
• End Date:
  20210831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9d5a19c86b1b6329bb53bc61075a71ddbc97d7afadf81b83066e59399d6a4ca83358d174c3cfe17cec501c5f8a45a0cfa60434325958af08739de6de1049b55c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230735/cdc_230735_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 341.48 KB ]