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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ment Health Subst Use. 2011 Nov;4(4):314–326. doi: 10.1080/17523281.2011.598462

Table 1.

Lifetime prevalence of exposure to traumatic events.

Trauma type Female (%) Male (%) Total (%) OR 95% CI
(n = 64) (n = 39) (N = 103)
Physical assault 94 92 93 1.25 0.26–5.92
Threatened, held captive or kidnapped 86 95 89 0.33 0.07–1.62
Witnessed serious injury or death 73 87 79 0.41 0.14–1.21
Rape ** 83 44 68 6.25 2.52–15.38
Sexual molestation 72 56 66 1.98 0.86–4.55
Life-threatening accident * 52 77 61 0.32 0.13–0.78
Shock from someone else’s trauma 50 62 54 0.63 0.28–1.40
Other stressful or upsetting event 36 26 32 1.63 0.67–3.92
Natural disaster * 16 39 24 0.30 0.12–0.75
Tortured or victim of terrorists 22 28 24 0.71 0.29–1.78
Experienced combat 0 5 2 - -
*

p < .05;

**

p < .01