Table 4.
Prevalence of various trauma-associated disorders and traumatic events
| Author/year | PTSD |
Depression |
Anxiety |
Average number of traumatic events | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | ||
|
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| Studies among South Sudanese in South Sudan/southern Sudan preflight setting) | |||||||
| Ng et al. (2017) | 618/1525 | 40.55 (38.05, 43.04) | - | - | - | - | 7.6 |
| Ayazi et al. (2012) | 448/1200 | 37.33 (34.59, 40.14 | 189/1200 | 15.75 (13.73, 17.94) | 15.1 | ||
| Ayazi et al. (2014) * | - | - | - | - | 307/1200 | 25.58 (23.13, 28.15) | |
| Roberts et al. (2009) | 450/1242 | 36.23 (33.55, 38.98) | 620/1242 | 49.92 (47.10, 52.74) | - | - | - |
| Karunakara et al. (2004) | 319/664 | 48.04 (44.18, 51.92) | - | - | - | - | 7.0 |
| Integrative score | 1835/4626 | 40.36 (35.99, 44.81) | 809/2442 | 31.56 (5.11, 67.59) | 307/1200 | 25.58 (23.15, 28.15) | 9.9 |
| a (inconsistency) | - | 89.44 (75.75, 95.40) | - | 99.71 (66.54, 99.82) | |||
| Studies among South Sudanese in refugee camps (flight setting) | |||||||
| Karunakara et al. (2004) | 570/1240 | 45.97 (43.17, 48.79) | - | - | - | - | 9.8 |
| Peltzer (1999) | 32/100 | 32.0 (23.02, 42.08) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Integrative score | 602/1340 | 39.75 (26.78, 53.9) | - | - | - | - | 9.8 |
| a (inconsistency) | - | 86.71 (47.49, 96.64) | |||||
| Studies among South Sudanese in developed countries (resettlement setting) | |||||||
| Fox and Willis (2010) | 1/33 | 3.03 (0.08, 15.76) | 4/33 | 12.12 (3.40, 28.20) | 3/33 | 9.01 (1.92, 24.33) | 8.5 |
| Tutlam et al. (2020) | 20/76 | 26.32 (16.87, 36.67) | 22/76 | 28.9 (18.5, 39.4) | 30/76 | 39.47 (28.44, 51.35) | 9.7 |
| Schweitzer et al. (2006) | 8/63 | 12.70 (5.65, 23.50) | 10/63 | 15.87 (7.88, 27.26) | - | - | 5.6 |
| Integrative score | 29/169 | 13.98 (4.05, 28.55) | 36/172 | 15.26 (8.79, 23.63) ** | 33/99 | 23.75 (2.59, 57.10) | 7.1 |
| a (inconsistency) | - | 82.18 (45.11, 94.21) | 0.00 (0.00, 0.00) | 91.58 (70.57, 97.59) a | |||
*
Ayazi et al. published this second paper from the same population as the previous paper, but was included because it provides prevalence for anxiety
**
Value for fixed effect recorded due to very low heterogeneity value (I.2 = 0.00%)
a
for the two studies that assessed anxiety in the USA