TABLE 2.

Prevalence and Overlap of High Levels of Mental Health Symptoms Among Trafficked and Sexually Exploited Girls and Women (n = 204): Posttrafficking Care Sites in 7 European Countries, 2004–2005

Mental Health Symptoms	No (%)
Prevalence of symptoms
Depression	112 (54.9)
Anxiety	98 (48.0)
PTSD	157 (77.0)
Overlap of symptoms
Depression only	2 (1.3)
Anxiety only	1 (0.6)
PTSD only	41 (25.6)
Depression + anxiety	0 (0.0)
Depression + PTSD	19 (11.9)
Anxiety + PTSD	6 (3.8)
Depression + anxiety + PTSD	91 (56.9)

Note. PTSD = posttraumatic stress disorder. Participants were found to have high levels of mental health symptoms on the basis of their responses to the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) subscales for depression and anxiety and to the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) for PTSD. Cutpoints for determining high levels of each symptom were as follows: depression BSI score ≥ 1.87; anxiety BSI score ≥ 1.71; PTSD HTQ score ≥ 2.0. The 7 posttrafficking care sites were located in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Moldova, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.