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SynthesisEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2024

Identifying effective moderators of cognitive behavioural trauma treatment with caregiver involvement for youth with PTSD: a meta-analysis.

Katalin Somers, Anouk Spruit, Geert Jan Stams, Stijn Vandevelde, Ramon Lindauer, Mark Assink

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Synthesis in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effectiveness of Moral Developmental Interventions for Youth Engaged in Delinquent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Katalin SomersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. somers.katalin@gmail.com.
Anouk SpruitBasic Trust, Specialists in Attachment and Trauma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Geert Jan StamsResearch Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Stijn VandeveldeDepartment of Special Needs Education, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Ramon LindauerAmsterdam UMC, Location AMC, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mark AssinkResearch Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
University of Amsterdam · NLFoundation Centrum '45 · NLGhent University · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mental health symptoms after traumatic events. This meta-analysis evaluated the influence of moderators of cognitive behavioural trauma treatment (CBTT) with caregiver involvement in traumatized children. A total of 28 studies were included, with 23 independent samples and 332 effect sizes, representing the data of 1931 children (M age = 11.10 years, SD = 2.36). Results showed a significant medium overall effect (d = 0.55, t = 2.478, p = 0.014), indicating CBTT with caregiver involvement was effective in treating PTSD (d = 0.70), with somewhat smaller effect sizes for internalizing, externalizing, social, cognitive and total problems (0.35 < d > 0.48). The positive treatment effect was robust; we found somewhat smaller effect sizes at follow-up (d = 0.49) compared to post-test (d = 0.57) assessments. Furthermore, several sample (i.e. child's age, gender, and trauma event), programme (i.e. the duration of treatment, number of sessions), study (i.e. control condition, type of instrument, informant, type of sample), and publication (i.e. publication year and impact factor) characteristics moderated the treatment outcomes of the child. In sum, the results of our meta-analysis might help to improve the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural trauma treatment for youth with PTSD, and guide the development of innovative trauma interventions that involve caregivers. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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CaregiversCognitive Behavioral TherapyStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdolescentChildFemaleHumansMaleCaregiver involvementCognitive behavioural therapyMeta-analysisPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)Youth

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PMID36178528
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