Posttraumatic stress symptoms in adolescents and young adults with a chronic somatic disease: a mixed-methods study

Table 9 Frequencies and their comparison for the categories of most stressful events due to CD, PTSS, anxious and depressive symptoms in self-report and observer-report

Categories^a	AYA (n = 70)		RP (n = 70)		P	χ²(1)	Φ
Categories^a	N	%	N	%	P	χ²(1)	Φ
Psychological burden	28	40.0	35	50.0	0.626	0.238	− 0.058
Physiological impairment	14	20.0	11	15.7	0.022*	5.285	0.275
Social burden	20	28.6	19	27.1	0.034*	4.515	0.254
CD self- management	25	35.7	30	42.9	0.031*	4.667	0.258
CATS, Cut-Off ≥ 21	25	35.7	33	47.1	0.108	2.580	0.192
GAD-7, Cut-Off ≥ 7 SCARED, Cut-Off ≥ 3	18	25.7	21	30.0	< 0.001*	13.702	0.442
PHQ-9, Cut-Off ≥ 7 SMFQ-P, Cut-Off ≥ 12	24	34.3	20	28.6	0.028*	4.804	0.262

Note. AYA = Adolescents and Young Adults; PTSS = Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms; CD = Chronic Somatic Disease; CATS = Child and Adolescents Trauma Screen, clinically relevant PTSS at a cut-off ≥ 21, self- and observer-report; GAD-7 = Generalized Anxiety Disorder − 7, elevated anxious symptoms at a cut-off ≥ 7, self-report; RP = Reference person; SCARED = Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders, elevated anxious symptoms at a cut-off ≥ 3, observer-report; PHQ-9= Patient Health Questionnaire, elevated depressive symptoms at a cut-off ≥ 7, self-report; SMFQ-P = Mood and Feelings Questionnaire, clinically relevant depressive symptoms at a cut-off ≥ 12, observer-report
^an = 19 AYA (8,1%) und n = 4 RP (5,7%) reported that they were not burdened by the CD.
* significant (p < .05)

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