Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

C. Kessler, Ronald; Aguilar‐Gaxiola, Sergio; Alonso, Jordi; Benjet, Corina; J. Bromet, Evelyn; Cardoso, Graça; Degenhardt, Louisa; de Girolamo, Giovanni; Dinolova, R.; Ferry, Finola; Florescu, Silvia; Gureje, Oye; María Haro, Josep; Huang, Yueqin; G. Karam, Elie; Kawakami, Norito; Lee, Sing; Lépine, Jean-Pierre; Levinson, Daphna; Navarro‐Mateu, Fernando; Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Piazza, Marina; Posada‐Villa, José; M. Scott, Kate; J. Stein, Dan; ten Have, Margreet; Torres, Yolanda; Carmen Viana, María; Petukhova, Maria; A. Sampson, Nancy; M. Zaslavsky, Alan; C. Koenen, Karestan

doi:10.1080/20008198.2017.1353383

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Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Published in European Journal of Psychotraumatology • Jul 31, 2017

Authors:

Ronald C. Kessler

Sergio Aguilar‐Gaxiola

Jordi Alonso

Abstract

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 revi...

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Mental health

Psychology

Psychiatry

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