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Everyday Memory Deficits in Children and Adolescents with PTSD: Performance on the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

Ali R. Moradi ,
Hamid T. Neshat Doost ,
Mohammad R. Taghavi ,
William Yule  and
Tim Dalgleish
Ali R. Moradi
Affiliation:
Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran
Hamid T. Neshat Doost
Affiliation:
University of Isfahan, Iran
Mohammad R. Taghavi
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.
William Yule
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.
Tim Dalgleish
Affiliation:
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, U.K.
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Abstract

Adult post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients often report a wide range of cognitive problems in memory, concentration, attention, planning, and judgement. Evaluation of these cognitive aspects of PTSD in adults has helped to define the nature of the disorder. However, there is a paucity of such work in younger subjects. This study has employed the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT) to examine cognitive factors in children and adolescents with PTSD. Eighteen child and adolescent patients with PTSD and 22 control subjects completed the test. PTSD subjects showed poorer overall memory performance compared with controls. Specifically, they were worse on the prospective and orientation items of the RBMT. The results are discussed in the light of research on everyday memory in adults with PTSD.

Keywords

Psychiatric disorderadolescenceschool childrenlife eventsmemoryassessmentPTSDRBMT
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , March 1999 , pp. 357 - 361
Copyright
© 1999 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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