Duarte Cristiane S, Eisenberg Ruth, Musa George J, Addolorato Amanda, Shen Sa, Hoven Christina W
1Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 43, New York, NY 10032 USA.
2New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY USA.
J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2017 Jul 5;12(1):31-35. doi: 10.1007/s40653-017-0159-7. eCollection 2019 Mar.
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.
该研究旨在确定儿童对其父母遭受创伤性事件的了解情况以及与这种了解相关的因素。年龄在9至16岁的儿童及其父母经历了一系列创伤事件，包括9·11袭击，他们回答了有关父母遭受危及生命事件的问题。儿童对父母遭受创伤的准确了解被定义为父母与孩子就一生中是否存在创伤性事件达成一致。本研究结果表明，儿童往往不知道他们的父母遭受了危及生命的事件。当孩子年龄较大、父亲直接经历了9·11事件或曾是急救人员时，对父亲遭受创伤的了解更准确。与母亲未患抑郁症的孩子相比，母亲患有抑郁症的孩子不太可能准确了解其母亲遭受的创伤。总体而言，研究结果表明儿童通常不知道父母（尤其是母亲）遭受了创伤性事件。下一步是确定对父母创伤暴露的了解如何影响儿童。
