Table 1.

Overview of Epidemiological Studies of Adolescents from Seven Different Countries

	Subjects			Age (mean)	Direct Exposure (Mean of experienced events)	Indirect exposure (Mean of experienced events)	Direct/Indirect Exposure (%) of Subjects exposed to at least one event*			PTSD (%)			Subclinical PTSD (%)			Most frequent direct events
	Males	Females	All	All	All	All	Males	Females	All	Males	Females	All	Males	Females	All
Elklit, (Denmark) 2001	50%	50%	390	14	2.5	3.2	78	87	82.5	5.6	12.3	9	11.2	17.4	14.1	Death of someone close, threats of being beaten & humiliationor persecution by others
Bödvarsdôttir & Elklit, 2007 (Iceland)	50%	49%*	206	14.5	2.6	3.5	79	74	76.5	12	20.3	16	11	13	12	Death of someone close, threats of violence & traffic accidents
Rhiger, Elklit & Lasgaard,2008 (Israel)***	43%	57%	494	15.6	3.1	4.1	-	-	85	-	-	-	-	-	-	Almost beeing injured or killed, war & violent assault
Domanskaité-Gota, Elklit & Christiansen, 2009 (Lithuania)	45%	55%	183	15.1	1.9	2.4	81	80	80	2.4	9.1	6.1	8.5	15.2	12.2	Threats of being beaten, near drowning, death of someoneclose& robbery/theft
Petersen, Elklit & Olesen, 2010 (The Faroe islands)	46.6%	51.4%**	687	14.2	2.9	4.8	89	94	91.5	14	41	20	15	25	14	Death of someone close, threat of being beaten, humiliationor persecution&near drowning
Rasmussen & Elklit (Submitted)	53.3%	46.7%	411	14.2	2.5	3.3	85	70	78.1	10.5	8.9	10	18.7	14	16.5	Death of someone close, traffic accident & serious illness
Karsberg (Kenya) & Elklit	65.8%b)	33.8 %**	477	16.4	5.6	7.2	96.3	91.8	94.76	30.5	42.3	34.5	19.8	32.2	23.8	Serious illness, death of someoneclose& witnessed other people being injured or hurt

^*1% of the participants did not state their gender

^**2% of the participants did not state their gender

^***This study used other diagnostic frameworks than PTSD and Subclinical PTSD to measure the effect of exposure.