ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2024
Trajectory of adolescents' nightmares in relation to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in young adulthood: a 10-year cohort of Chinese Wenchuan earthquake survivors.
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- The Long-Term Mental Health Impact of Disasters: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Epidemiological Studies.Harvard review of psychiatryPooled it
- The effect of sleep disturbance trajectories on psychotic-like experiences among adolescents: the mediating role of depressive symptoms.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
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purposeThis study examined the longitudinal trajectories of adolescent survivors' nightmares after the Wenchuan earthquake and tested whether specific trajectory memberships of nightmares could predict depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the 10 years after earthquake.
methods610 adolescents exposed to the Wenchuan earthquake were surveyed on nightmares at 18 months (T
resultsThe prevalence rates of frequent nightmares at three time points were 9.8%, 11.5%, and 9.3%, respectively. Five different trajectories of nightmares were identified: resistance (77.0%), recover (8.4%), delayed-dysfunction (7.9%), chronic-dysfunction (1.1%), and relapsing/remitting (5.6%). Additionally, we found that participants in relapsing/remitting, chronic or delayed dysfunction trajectories compared with those in the resistant group were more likely to experience depression and PTSD in young adulthood after adjusting for a wide range of covariates.
conclusionsNightmares had heterogeneity after a catastrophic earthquake. Timely assessment and targeted interventions on specific nightmares are necessary for reducing the incidence of psychiatric disorders.
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