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. 2013 May 8;8(5):e63545. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063545

Table 1. Original list of traumatic events in CIDI 2.1 and updated list with additional traumatic events.

Traumatic events form CIDI 2.1 Traumatic events added in the study
1. War experience 1. Being attacked without a weapon
2. Life-threatening accident 2. Being attacked with a weapon*
3. Fire, flood of other natural disaster 3. Being kidnaped or held captive*
4. Witnessing someone being badly injured of killed 4. Fast kidnap
5. Rape 5. Death threats
6. Sexual molestation 6. Being victim of conflict between gangs/drug dealers
7. Being physically attacked or assaulted 7. Being beaten-up by parents/relatives
8. Being threatened with a weapon, held captive or kidnapped* 8. Being beaten-up by an intimate partner
9. Being tortured of victim of terrorism 9. Being beaten-up by anyone else
10. Other extremely stressful or upsetting event 10. Having the house broken into while at home
11. Events of the list happening with a close person 11. Having the house broken into while not at home
12. Blackmailing telephone calls
13. Car/motorcycle accidents
14. Witnessing a bank robbery
15. Witnessing a shoot-out or being victim of stray bullet
16. Witnessing domestic violence in childhood
17. Seeing or touching a corpse unexpectedly
18. Witnessing atrocities, slaughter, massacre
19. Human-made disaster
20. Direct consequences of crime organization’s attacks¥
21. Indirect consequences of crime organization’s attacks¥

Notes:

*

Event 8 from the original list was disaggregated into two separate events (2 and 3 in the list of added events).

In the fast kidnap, the person is held captive for several hours and taken to withdraw cash from ATMs.

In this event, criminals call someone and pretend they kidnaped and will kill one of his/her relatives if he/she does not transfer them a certain amount of cash.

¥

In 2006, criminal organizations in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro perpetrated a series of random attacks, burning buses and buildings, as well as murdering policemen and other low-enforcement personal. The population was affected directly (by being present in the situation) and/or indirectly (by feeling upset due to the terror that spread throughout the cities during the nearly one-month period the attacks happened.