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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Associated With Natural And Human-Made Disasters In The World Mental Health Surveys, Evelyn J. Bromet, Lukoye Atwoli, Norito Kawakami, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, P Piotrowski, A J. King, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Brentan Bunting, Koen Demyttenaere
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Associated With Natural And Human-Made Disasters In The World Mental Health Surveys, Evelyn J. Bromet, Lukoye Atwoli, Norito Kawakami, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, P Piotrowski, A J. King, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Brentan Bunting, Koen Demyttenaere
Internal Medicine, East Africa
Background: Research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following natural and human-made disasters has been undertaken for more than three decades. Although PTSD prevalence estimates vary widely, most are in the 20–40% range in disaster-focused studies but considerably lower (3–5%) in the few general population epidemiological surveys that evaluated disaster-related PTSD as part of a broader clinical assessment. The World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys provide an opportunity to examine disaster-related PTSD in representative general population surveys across a much wider range of sites than in previous studies.
Method: Although disaster-related PTSD was evaluated in 18 WMH surveys, only six in high-income …
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Associated With Unexpected Death Of A Loved One: Cross-National Findings From The World Mental Health Surveys, Lukoye Atwoli, Dan J. Stein, Andrew King, Maria Petukhova, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Evelyn J. Bromet, Giovanni De Girolamo, Koen Demyttenaere, Silvia Florescu
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Associated With Unexpected Death Of A Loved One: Cross-National Findings From The World Mental Health Surveys, Lukoye Atwoli, Dan J. Stein, Andrew King, Maria Petukhova, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Evelyn J. Bromet, Giovanni De Girolamo, Koen Demyttenaere, Silvia Florescu
Internal Medicine, East Africa
Background: Unexpected death of a loved one (UD) is the most commonly reported traumatic experience in cross‐national surveys. However, much remains to be learned about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after this experience. The WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative provides a unique opportunity to address these issues.
Methods: Data from 19 WMH surveys (n = 78,023; 70.1% weighted response rate) were collated. Potential predictors of PTSD (respondent sociodemographics, characteristics of the death, history of prior trauma exposure, history of prior mental disorders) after a representative sample of UDs were examined using logistic regression. Simulation was used to estimate overall …