A systematic review of person-centered approaches to investigating patterns of trauma exposure

ML O'Donnell; I Schaefer; T Varker; D Kartal; D Forbes; RAA Bryant; D Silove; M Creamer; A McFarlane; G Mahli; K Felmingham; M Van Hoof; D Hadzi-Pavlovic; A Nickerson; Z Steel

Journal article

A systematic review of person-centered approaches to investigating patterns of trauma exposure

ML O'Donnell, I Schaefer, T Varker, D Kartal, D Forbes, RAA Bryant, D Silove, M Creamer, A McFarlane, G Mahli, K Felmingham, M Van Hoof, D Hadzi-Pavlovic, A Nickerson, Z Steel

Clinical Psychology Review | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2017.08.009

Abstract

Recent research has found that exposure to traumatic events may occur in certain patterns, rather than randomly. Person-centered analyses, and specifically latent class analysis, is becoming increasingly popular in examining patterns, or ‘classes’ of trauma exposure. This review aimed to identify whether there are consistent homogeneous subgroups of trauma-exposed individuals, and the relationship between these trauma classes and psychiatric diagnosis. A systematic review of the literature was completed using the databases EMBASE, MEDLINE (PubMed) and PsycINFO. From an initial yield of 189, 17 studies met inclusion criteria. All studies identified a group of individuals who had a higher like..

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Meaghan O'Donnell Author

Tracey Varker Author

Dzenana Kartal Author

David Forbes Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

Funding for this study was provided by Humboldt Senior Researcher Award 2016 (MOD) and a National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant (568970). The funding sources had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing the manuscript or the decision to submit the paper for publication.