Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Background: Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) onset-persistence is thought to vary significantly by trauma type, most epidemiological surveys are incapable of assessing this because they evaluate lifetime PTSD only for traumas nominated by respondents as their ‘worst.’ Objective: To rev...

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Main Authors: Ronald C. Kessler, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Corina Benjet, Evelyn J. Bromet, Graça Cardoso, Louisa Degenhardt, Giovanni de Girolamo, Rumyana V. Dinolova, Finola Ferry, Silvia Florescu, Oye Gureje, Josep Maria Haro, Yueqin Huang, Elie G. Karam, Norito Kawakami, Sing Lee, Jean-Pierre Lepine, Daphna Levinson, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Marina Piazza, José Posada-Villa, Kate M. Scott, Dan J. Stein, Margreet Ten Have, Yolanda Torres, Maria Carmen Viana, Maria V. Petukhova, Nancy A. Sampson, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Karestan C. Koenen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-10-01
Series:European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Subjects:
burden of illness
disorder prevalence and persistence
epidemiology
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
trauma exposure
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1353383

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