Development of an international data repository and research resource: the Prospective studies of Acute Child Trauma and Recovery (PACT/R) Data Archive

Figures & data

Table 1. Study characteristics for the first 30 PACT/R Data Archive datasets

							Assessment timing ^b
PACT/R dataset number	Type(s) of acute trauma exposure (index event)	Age range (years)	Country	Year(s) ^a	N in dataset	Number of assessments	< 24 hr	1 day–1 mo	1–3 mo	3–6 mo	6–12 mo	≥ 12 mo
1001	Injury/RTA (Kassam-Adams & Winston, 2004)	8–17	US	1999–2001	243	3		X X			X
1002	Injury/RTA (Feinberg, 2004)	5–7	US	1999–2001	122	3		X X			X
1003	Injury/Medical (Kassam-Adams, 2006)	8–17	US	2002–2004	176	2		X		X
1004	Violence (Fein et al., 2002)	8–18	US	1999–2000	185	5	X	X	X		X	X
1005	Injury (Kassam-Adams, Bakker, Marsac, Fein, & Winston, 2015)	8–17	US	2003	262	2	X			X
1006	Injury/Medical/Violence/RTA (Kassam-Adams et al., 2013)	8–17	US	2007–2010	447	2		X		X
1007	Injury (Kassam-Adams et al., 2011)	8–17	US	2007–2008	131	3		X	X		X
1008	Injury (Marsac, Donlon, Winston, & Kassam-Adams, 2013)	8–17	US	2005	120	3	X	X		X
1009	Violence (Pailler et al., 2007)	8–17	US	2001–2003	392	2	X				X
1010	Injury (Le Brocque, Hendrikz, & Kenardy, 2010)	7–16	AUS	2000–2002	151	4		X	X		X	X
1012	Injury (Kenardy, Thompson, Le Brocque, & Olsson, 2008)	7–15	AUS	2003–2004	104	3		X	X		X
1013	Injury (Kenardy et al., 2012)	6–14	AUS	2004–2006	205	5			X	X	X	X X
1014	Injury (Cox & Kenardy, 2010)	7–16	AUS	2007	63	3		X	X		X
1018	Injury (Nugent, Christopher, & Delahanty, 2006)	8–18	US	2001–2003	85	3	X	X	X
1019	Injury (Ostrowski, Christopher, van Dulmen, & Delahanty, 2007)	8–18	US	2003–2004	61	3	X		X		X
1020	Violence/RTA (Meiser-Stedman, Yule, Smith, Glucksman, & Dalgleish, 2005)	10–16	UK	2001–2002	103	3	X	X			X
1021	RTA (Meiser-Stedman, Smith, Glucksman, Yule, & Dalgleish, 2008)	2–10	UK	2004–2005	113	3	X	X			X
1022	Injury/Medical/Violence/RTA (Nixon, Ellis, Nehmy, & Ball, 2010)	7–17	AUS	2004–2006	135	3		X		X	X
1023	RTA (Zehnder, Meuli, & Landolt, 2010)	7–16	SUI	2004–2007	50	3		X	X		X
1025	Injury/RTA/Violence (Zatzick et al., 2006)	12–18	US	2002–2003	108	4		X	X	X		X
1026	Injury (Alisic et al., 2015)	3–16	AUS	2013–2014	85	3		X	X	X
1027	Disaster (hurricane) (La Greca, Silverman, Vernberg, & Prinstein, 1996)	7–12	US	1992	568	3				X	XX
1028	Disaster (hurricane) (La Greca, Silverman, & Wasserstein, 1998)	9–12	US	1992	156	3	X*			X	X
1031	Disaster (earthquake) (Eksi et al., 2007)	9–16	TUR	1999	160	2				X		X
1032	RTA/Injury (de Haan, Tutus, Goldbeck, Rosner, & Landolt, 2019)	7–18	SUI	2016–2018	130	3		X		X	X
1034	Injury (O’Connor et al., 2012)	13–17	US	2007–2008	230	5		X		X		XXX
1035	Disaster (hurricane) (Self-Brown, Lai, Thompson, McGill, & Kelley, 2013)	8–16	US	2005	426	4				X		XXX
1036	Injury (Marsac et al., 2017)	8–17	US	2012–2014	101	3		X	X	X
1037	Injury/RTA/Violence/Medical (Meiser-Stedman et al., 2017)	8–17	UK	2010–2013	260	3		X	X		X
1038	Injury/RTA/Violence/Medical Halligan (Hiller et al., 2018)	6–13	UK	2014–2015	127	3		X		X	X
	Total for combined 30 datasets	2–18		1992–2018	5499	2–5

^aCalendar year(s) in which index trauma occurred; ^bTime categories are mutually exclusive, i.e. ‘1–3 mo’ denotes at least 1 month but less than 3 months; multiple Xs denote multiple assessment points within one time category.

RTA = Road traffic accident; Medical = Acute medical event other than injury; US = United States; AUS = Australia; UK = United Kingdom; SUI = Switzerland; TUR = Turkey.

Table 2. Participant-level data from the first 30 PACT/R Data Archive datasets: Primary trauma type (index event), demographic characteristics, and prior trauma exposure

	Frequency N (%)	Number of studies and number (percent) of participants in which this was assessed
Primary trauma type (index event) for child		30 studies
Unintentional injury	2545 (46.3%)	5499 participants (100%)
Disaster	1310 (23.8%)
Interpersonal violence	735 (13.4%)
Road traffic accident	573 (10.4%)
Acute medical event	136 (2.5%)
Missing	165 (3.0%)
Child age (in years)		30 studies
2–5	84 (1.5%)	5499 participants (100%)
6–12	3124 (56.8%)
13–18	2215 (40.3%)
Missing	76 (1.4%)
Child gender		30 studies
Male	3275 (59.6%)	5499 participants (100%)
Female	2217 (40.3%)
Missing	7 (0.1%)
Child is of minority race/ethnicity in country of residence		28 studies
Yes	2494 (45.4%)	5231 participants (95.1%)
No	2487 (45.2%)
Missing	250 (4.5%)
Not assessed in study	268 (4.9%)
Parental education level		16 studies
Did not complete secondary education	511 (9.3%)	3145 participants (57.2%)
Completed secondary education	1952 (35.5%)
Missing	682 (12.4%)
Not assessed in study	2354 (42.8%)
Child has prior trauma exposure		17 studies
Yes	1265 (23.0%)	2502 (45.5%)
No	1046 (19.0%)
Missing	191 (3.5%)
Not assessed in study	2997 (54.5%)

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Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available upon request from the PACT/R Data Archive. https://childtraumadata.org/use-pactr-data