Parents' Retrospective Reports of Youth Psychological Responses to the Sniper Attacks in the Washington, DC, Area

A random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in May 2003, with 355 parents of children ages 2-17 years old, living in Washington, DC, or in the two surrounding counties during the October 2002 sniper shootings, to examine parent retrospective reports of child event-related psychological distre...

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Published in:Violence and victims 2011-01, Vol.26 (1), p.116-129
Main Authors: Self-Brown, Shannon R., Massetti, Greta M., Chen, Jieru, Schulden, Jeffrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adult
Anxiety
Behavioral Sciences
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Child Welfare - psychology
Child Welfare - statistics & numerical data
Children
Community
Counseling
Cross-Sectional Studies
District of Columbia - epidemiology
Elderly
Fatalities
Female
Females
Firearms
Humans
Marriage and Family Counselling
Maryland - epidemiology
Middle Aged
Parent-Child Relations
Parents
Parents - psychology
Policy, Social Justice, and Human Rights
Psychological Distress
Psychology
Public health
Retrospective Studies
Risk
Social and Personality Psychology
Social Work
Stress
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Symptoms
Terrorism - psychology
Trauma
Violence
Womens History
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Summary:A random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in May 2003, with 355 parents of children ages 2-17 years old, living in Washington, DC, or in the two surrounding counties during the October 2002 sniper shootings, to examine parent retrospective reports of child event-related psychological distress. An estimated 32% of parents reported that children experienced at least one psychological distress symptom related to sniper shootings. Older children, females, children with a history of trauma exposure prior to sniper attacks, children whose parents reported routine disruption as the result of attacks, children whose parents perceived them as at great risk for harm from sniper attacks, and those children whose parents reported more traumatic stress symptoms in response to attacks were at greatest risk for reported psychological distress.
ISSN:0886-6708
1945-7073
DOI:10.1891/0886-6708.26.1.116