Table 3.
Prevalence of adverse life event experience and adverse life event reexperience by lifetime PTSD diagnosis.
| Adverse life event experienced | Adverse life event reexperienced | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Participants reporting | Percentage | N | Participants reporting | Percentage | Intensity mean (SD) | |
| PTSD sample | |||||||
| Any ALE | 32 | 32 | 100%a | 31 | 19 | 61%c | 3.90 (1.08) |
| Any severe ALE | 32 | 31 | 97%a | 30 | 14 | 47%c | 4.04 (1.21) |
| Disaster | 32 | 24 | 75%a | 23 | 5 | 22%c | 3.00 (1.59) |
| Accident | 32 | 16 | 50%a | 15 | 2 | 13%c | 5.00 (0.00) |
| Physically assaulted | 32 | 21 | 66%a | 20 | 6 | 30%c | 3.80 (1.79) |
| Sexually assaulted | 32 | 7 | 22% | 7 | 2 | 29% | 4.00 (2.00) |
| Sex. uncomfortable | 32 | 7 | 22% | 6 | 1 | 17% | NA |
| Illness/Injury | 32 | 10 | 31%a | 10 | 4 | 40%c | 4.25 (1.50) |
| Loss | 32 | 21 | 66%a | 10 | 10 | 100%c | 3.67 (1.41) |
| Perpetration | 32 | 19 | 59%a | 18 | 10 | 56%c | 4.22 (1.56) |
| Stressful experience | 32 | 28 | 88%a | 27 | 12 | 44% | 3.83 (1.19) |
| Non-PTSD sample | |||||||
| Any ALE | 128 | 105 | 82%b | 100 | 36 | 36%d | 3.89 (1.02) |
| Any severe ALE | 128 | 58 | 45%b | 57 | 13 | 23%d | 4.08 (0.93) |
| Disaster | 128 | 23 | 18%b | 23 | 1 | 4%d | 3.00 (NA) |
| Accident | 128 | 26 | 20%b | 26 | 2 | 8%d | 4.00 (1.41) |
| Physically assaulted | 128 | 32 | 25%b | 31 | 6 | 19%d | 4.00 (1.26) |
| Sexually assaulted | 128 | 16 | 13% | 15 | 5 | 33% | 3.80 (1.30) |
| Sex. uncomfortable | 128 | 33 | 26% | 31 | 6 | 19% | 3.33 (1.51) |
| Illness/Injury | 128 | 13 | 10%b | 13 | 3 | 23%d | 5.00 (0.00) |
| Loss | 128 | 44 | 34%b | 40 | 10 | 25%d | 3.70 (1.34) |
| Perpetration | 128 | 8 | 6%b | 7 | 1 | 14%d | 5.00 (NA) |
| Stressful experience | 128 | 71 | 55%b | 67 | 25 | 37% | 4.17 (0.87) |
a and b indicate statistically significant differences between participants with and without a self-reported lifetime PTSD diagnosis in ALE experience. c and d indicate significant differences between samples in ALE reexperience.