The association between PTSD symptoms and salivary cortisol in youth: the role of time since the trauma.

Publisher: Wiley Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8809259 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0894-9867 (Print) Linking ISSN: 08949867 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Trauma Stress Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2005- : Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
Original Publication: New York ; London : Plenum Press, c1988-

Saliva*; Hydrocortisone/*analysis ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*physiopathology; Adolescent ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Hydrocortisone/metabolism ; Interviews as Topic ; Male ; United States

This study examined the direction of association between symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and cortisol levels among youth with recent and distal traumas (N = 50; mean age = 10.7 years). Each had a clinical interview for PTSD symptoms, a cortisol assessment, and the time since the child's most recent trauma was assessed. Results indicated that the time since the most recent trauma moderated the association between cortisol and PTSD symptoms and comparisons indicated that there were significant differences in the size of the correlations across the recent and distal trauma groups. The results point to a potentially important role of the time since trauma in understanding the relationship between PTSD symptoms and cortisol.

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Date Created: 20071024 Date Completed: 20080201 Latest Revision: 20181201

20231215

10.1002/jts.20251

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