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Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of inconsistent trauma reporting in community samples and about its associations with psychopathology. This study aimed to assess for the first time the prevalence of inconsistent trauma reporting in a community sample of children/adolescents and to e...

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Autores principales: Burns, Annette, Coughlan, Helen, Cannon, Mary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32005203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-2438-3
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description BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of inconsistent trauma reporting in community samples and about its associations with psychopathology. This study aimed to assess for the first time the prevalence of inconsistent trauma reporting in a community sample of children/adolescents and to explore associations with both psychotic experiences and with psychopathology more generally. METHOD: A community-based sample of 86 children/adolescents (baseline mean age 11.5) were interviewed at two time points with data collected in relation to potentially traumatic events through the K-SADS. Emotional and behavioural problems were assessed at follow-up (mean age 15.7) through the Youth Self Report questionnaire while the presence of psychotic experiences was based on expert consensus post interview. Logistic regression models were used to test associations between inconsistent reporting and psychotic experiences at baseline and follow-up, with associations with emotional and behavioral problems at follow-up also assessed. RESULTS: Overall, 16.3% of adolescents failed to report previously reported potentially traumatic events at follow-up and were therefore defined as inconsistent trauma reporters. Inconsistent reporting was associated with emotional and behavioural problems as assessed by the Youth Self Report with the exception of rule breaking behaviour and with psychotic experiences as assessed on interview. CONCLUSIONS: Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with psychotic experiences and emotional and behavioural problems in young people and may represent an important marker for psychopathology in youth.
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spelling pubmed-69933922020-02-04 Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people Burns, Annette Coughlan, Helen Cannon, Mary BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of inconsistent trauma reporting in community samples and about its associations with psychopathology. This study aimed to assess for the first time the prevalence of inconsistent trauma reporting in a community sample of children/adolescents and to explore associations with both psychotic experiences and with psychopathology more generally. METHOD: A community-based sample of 86 children/adolescents (baseline mean age 11.5) were interviewed at two time points with data collected in relation to potentially traumatic events through the K-SADS. Emotional and behavioural problems were assessed at follow-up (mean age 15.7) through the Youth Self Report questionnaire while the presence of psychotic experiences was based on expert consensus post interview. Logistic regression models were used to test associations between inconsistent reporting and psychotic experiences at baseline and follow-up, with associations with emotional and behavioral problems at follow-up also assessed. RESULTS: Overall, 16.3% of adolescents failed to report previously reported potentially traumatic events at follow-up and were therefore defined as inconsistent trauma reporters. Inconsistent reporting was associated with emotional and behavioural problems as assessed by the Youth Self Report with the exception of rule breaking behaviour and with psychotic experiences as assessed on interview. CONCLUSIONS: Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with psychotic experiences and emotional and behavioural problems in young people and may represent an important marker for psychopathology in youth. BioMed Central 2020-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6993392/ /pubmed/32005203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-2438-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people
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title_full Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people
title_fullStr Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people
title_full_unstemmed Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people
title_short Inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people
title_sort inconsistent trauma reporting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems and psychotic experiences in young people
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6993392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32005203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-2438-3
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