Research

My primary research interests lies in understanding the interplay between trauma events and sociodemographic factors such as nationality, income, race, ethnicity etc. I'm also interested in the impact of traumatic events on functioning and substance use in diverse populations.

I am interested in working with an international population, beyond Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies.

Here are a few research projects that I have worked on/ I am working on currently:

  1. Greene, T., Sznitman, S., Contractor, A. A., Prakash, K., Fried, E. I., & Gelkopf, M. (2022). The memory-experience gap for PTSD symptoms: The correspondence between experience sampling and past month retrospective reports of traumatic stress symptoms. Psychiatry research, 307, 114315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114315

  2. Spiller, T. R., Weilenmann, S., Prakash, K., Schnyder, U., von Känel, R., & Pfaltz, M. C. (2021). Emotion Network Density in Burnout. BMC Psychology, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00670-y

  3. Prakash, Krithika; Tu, Joseph; and Staples, Angela (2022) "Impact of Neighborhood Quality and Recent Life Stressors on Sleep Problems: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents at Risk for Maltreatment," Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article 7. https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol13/iss1/7

  4. Childhood Maltreatment across Cultures with the Global Collaboration of Traumatic Stress: https://www.global-psychotrauma.net/cm-sec

  5. Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable, and Re-usable (FAIR) data practices in international trauma research with the Global Collaboration of Traumatic Stress:https://www.global-psychotrauma.net/fair-data

  6. Prakash, K., (2021). Network Analysis of Post-Traumatic Symptoms and Functioning in a Sample of Maltreated Children. National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) Flash Talks.