Table 1.
Prevalence of Dissociative Symptoms Among Respondents with 12-Month DSM-IV/CIDI PTSD as a Function of Trauma Type Implicated in the PTSDa
| Trauma Type | Proportion with Dissociative Symptomsb
|
nc | |
|---|---|---|---|
| % | (SE) | ||
| War-Related | 17.5 | (4.6) | 30 |
| Sexual Violence | 19.9 | (3.4) | 144 |
| Physical Violence | 13.9 | (3.1) | 102 |
| Accident | 16.2 | (4.9) | 80 |
| Traumatic Death of Loved One | 13.0 | (3.3) | 201 |
| Network Event | 12.0 | (3.5) | 98 |
| Other/Private Eventd | 8.9 | (2.6) | 92 |
| Total | 14.4 | (1.3) | 747 |
CIDI, The World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview; PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder; WMH, World Mental Health.
War-related traumas include: combat experience, purposefully injured or tortured or killed someone, relief worker in a war zone, civilian in a war zone, civilian in a region of terror, refugee, and saw atrocities; sexual violence traumas include: rape, sexual assault, and stalking; physical violence traumas include beaten by a parent or other childhood caregiver, beaten by a spouse or other romantic partner, beaten up by anyone else, mugged or threatened with a weapon, and kidnapped; accident traumas include natural disaster, toxic chemical exposure, other man-made disaster, life-threatening automobile accident, other life-threatening accident or injury, and life-threatening illness; network event traumas include having a life-threatening illness, any other traumatic event experienced by a loved one, witnessed physical violence at home as a child, discovered or saw a dead body or witnessed someone die or become seriously injured, and accidentally caused someone to have a serious injury or die.
The proportion of cases with DSM-IV/CIDI PTSD who had dissociative symptoms does not differ significantly across trauma types (χ26 = 8.5, p = .20).
The sample sizes reported represent the denominators (i.e., all respondents with the trauma type in the row; not the proportion of this total that had dissociative symptoms).
Other events include all those reported in response to an open-ended question about exposure to traumas not on the prespecified WMH list that would not clearly be classified back into one of the more specific categories on that list. Private events include those reported in response to the following question: “Sometimes people have experiences they don’t want to talk about in interviews. I won’t ask you to describe anything like this, but, without telling me what it was, did you ever have a traumatic event that you didn’t report to me because you didn’t want to talk about it?”