Mai Uchida1, Huifen Feng2, Adriana Feder2, Natalie Mota3, Clyde B Schechter4, Hilary D Woodworth1, Caroline G Kelberman1, Michael Crane5, Philip Landrigan5, Jacqueline Moline6, Iris Udasin7, Denise Harrison8, Benjamin J Luft9, Craig Katz2, Steven M Southwick2,3, Robert H Pietrzak2,3. 1. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. 2. Department of Psychiatry, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. 3. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 4. Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York. 5. Department of Preventive Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. 6. Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Hofstra North Shore - Long Island Jewish School of Medicine, New York, New York. 7. Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey. 8. Departments of Environmental Medicine and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York. 9. Department of Medicine, Division of Infection Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We investigated trans-generational associations between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in World Trade Center (WTC) responders and behavioral problems in their children. METHODS: Participants were WTC responders-8034 police and 8352 non-traditional (eg, construction workers)-with one or more children at the time of their first visit to the World Trade Center Health Program (WTC-HP). Self-report questionnaires were administered approximately 4 years after the 9/11 WTC attack. RESULTS: A total of 31.4% of non-traditional and 20.0% of police responders reported behavioral problems in their children. Non-traditional responder status, female sex, Hispanic ethnicity, more life stressors, more WTC-related PTSD symptoms, and dysphoric arousal symptoms were significant correlates of behavioral problems in responders' children. CONCLUSIONS: Specific parental sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical characteristics, as well as PTSD symptom severity, were significant correlates of child behavior problems. Findings encourage monitoring and early intervention for children of disaster responders, particularly those at highest risk.
BACKGROUND: We investigated trans-generational associations between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in World Trade Center (WTC) responders and behavioral problems in their children. METHODS:Participants were WTC responders-8034 police and 8352 non-traditional (eg, construction workers)-with one or more children at the time of their first visit to the World Trade Center Health Program (WTC-HP). Self-report questionnaires were administered approximately 4 years after the 9/11 WTC attack. RESULTS: A total of 31.4% of non-traditional and 20.0% of police responders reported behavioral problems in their children. Non-traditional responder status, female sex, Hispanic ethnicity, more life stressors, more WTC-related PTSD symptoms, and dysphoric arousal symptoms were significant correlates of behavioral problems in responders' children. CONCLUSIONS: Specific parental sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical characteristics, as well as PTSD symptom severity, were significant correlates of child behavior problems. Findings encourage monitoring and early intervention for children of disaster responders, particularly those at highest risk.
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