ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2020
Dysfunctional posttraumatic cognitions, posttraumatic stress and depression in children and adolescents exposed to trauma: a network analysis.
Article in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding the relationship of trauma memory characteristics to symptoms of PTSD and depression in trauma-exposed children and adolescents: a comprehensive network analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom change in youth after trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy: Insights from cross-sectional and cross-lagged panel network analysis.Journal of traumatic stress · 2026Article
- Association Between Internet Addiction and Comorbid Anxiety and Depression in Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Latent Profile Analysis and Network Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The associations between PTSD symptom clusters, insomnia, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents with low and high levels of internet addiction: A cross-lagged network analysis.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2026Article
- Maladaptive appraisals and posttraumatic stress reactions in young terror survivors across 8 years: a random intercepts cross-lagged analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Advances, challenges, and future directions in trauma-related Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) data efforts.Journal of traumatic stress · 2025Review
- The structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms in youth with and without obsessive-compulsive disorder: New insights using factor and network analysis.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- "Children of War": Examining the Associations between War Exposure, Maternal PTSD, and Continuous Traumatic Stress on Israeli Children's PTSD.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD in adolescents: rationale, potential, risks, and considerations.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Review
- Developing a transdiagnostic Ecological Momentary Assessment protocol for psychopathology.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Exploring networks of complex developmental trauma symptomatology among children and adolescents involved in child welfare.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- A Distinction Without a Difference? A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding PTSD and Depression Symptom Overlap Among Disaster-Exposed Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Investigating Links between Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and Self-Rated Health Status in Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Intelligence and Psychosocial Stress.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A Longitudinal Investigation of the Relationship Between Trauma-Related Cognitive Processes and Internalising and Externalising Psychopathology in Young People in Out-of-Home Care.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- The network structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms in war-affected children and adolescents.JCPP advances · 2023Article
- The PTSD Symptom Presentation and the Effect of Polytrauma on PTSD Symptom Clusters Among Young People Who Have Experienced Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
- Comorbidity Patterns of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression Symptoms: Cross-Validation in Two Postearthquake Child and Adolescent Samples.Depression and anxiety · 2023Article
- Latent cause inference during extinction learning in trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD.Psychological medicine · 2022Article
- Article
- Comparing PTSD symptom networks in type I vs. type II trauma survivors.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
33 authors at 20 institutions in 11 countries.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThe latest version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) proposes a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis reduced to its core symptoms within the symptom clusters re-experiencing, avoidance and hyperarousal. Since children and adolescents often show a variety of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the aftermath of traumatic events, the question arises whether such a conceptualization of the PTSD diagnosis is supported in children and adolescents. Furthermore, although dysfunctional posttraumatic cognitions (PTCs) appear to play an important role in the development and persistence of PTSD in children and adolescents, their function within diagnostic frameworks requires clarification.
methodsWe compiled a large international data set of 2,313 children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years exposed to trauma and calculated a network model including dysfunctional PTCs, PTSD core symptoms and depression symptoms. Central items and relations between constructs were investigated.
resultsThe PTSD re-experiencing symptoms strong or overwhelming emotions and strong physical sensations and the depression symptom difficulty concentrating emerged as most central. Items from the same construct were more strongly connected with each other than with items from the other constructs. Dysfunctional PTCs were not more strongly connected to core PTSD symptoms than to depression symptoms.
conclusionsOur findings provide support that a PTSD diagnosis reduced to its core symptoms could help to disentangle PTSD, depression and dysfunctional PTCs. Using longitudinal data and complementing between-subject with within-subject analyses might provide further insight into the relationship between dysfunctional PTCs, PTSD and depression.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.