Fairbank John A, Fairbank Doreen W
Mid-Atlantic (VISN 6) Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Durham VA Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, DUMC Box 3438, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2009 Aug;11(4):289-95. doi: 10.1007/s11920-009-0042-9.
In this article, we present an update on epidemiologic research that addresses the scope and impact of children's exposure to traumatic events in daily living, as well as under special circumstances, such as natural disasters. Toward this end, we provide an overview of the findings of key selected studies that estimate the prevalence of children's exposure to trauma and associated developmental, functional, mental, and physical health problems. Over the past few years, epidemiologic research on child traumatic stress has demonstrated that children's exposure to traumatic events is more common than once thought and that children exposed to multiple traumatic events are at a substantially greater risk for a wide range of adverse mental and physical health problems than children who have not suffered cumulative traumatic experiences. These findings have important implications for the provision of mental health and medical services to children and adolescents who have experienced child traumatic stress.
在本文中，我们介绍了流行病学研究的最新情况，该研究涉及儿童在日常生活中以及在自然灾害等特殊情况下接触创伤性事件的范围和影响。为此，我们概述了一些关键研究的结果，这些研究估计了儿童接触创伤的患病率以及相关的发育、功能、心理和身体健康问题。在过去几年中，关于儿童创伤应激的流行病学研究表明，儿童接触创伤性事件比以往认为的更为普遍，而且与未经历累积创伤经历的儿童相比，接触多种创伤性事件的儿童出现广泛不良心理和身体健康问题的风险要高得多。这些发现对于为经历过儿童创伤应激的儿童和青少年提供心理健康和医疗服务具有重要意义。
