The Epidemiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Disasters
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- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Epidemiologic Reviews
- Vol. 27 (1), 78-91
- https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxi003
Abstract
Traumatic experiences are relatively common. More than two thirds of persons in the general population may experience a significant traumatic event at some point in their lives, and up to one fifth of people in the United States may experience such an event in any given year (1–5). Although comparable international data are limited, large proportions of populations in many countries have been exposed to terrorism, forced relocation, and violence, which suggests that the overall prevalence of exposure to traumatic events worldwide may be even higher than that in the United States (6, 7).This publication has 210 references indexed in Scilit:
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