Table 2. The potentially traumatic events assessed in the World Mental Health Surveys.

Event Subtypes	Individual Traumatic Events (29)
I. Combat Experience	Combat experience (military or non-military) in a war or sectarian violence (e.g. political, religious, or ethnic conflicts)
	Purposefully injured, tortured or killed someone
II. Other War Experience	Relief worker or peacemaker in war zone or region of sectarian violence
	Civilian in war zone
	Civilian in region of sectarian violence
	Dispatched refugee from a war zone or region of sectarian violence
	Witnessed attrocities or carnage
III. Physically abused as a child	Beaten up as a child by a caregiver
IV. Physically assaulted or threatened	Kidnappped or held captive
	Beaten up by someone else
	Mugged or threatened with a weapon
V. Physically assaulted or threatened by spouse or romantic partner	Beaten up by a spouse or romantic partner
	Stalked
VI. Sexually assaulted	Raped
	Sexually assaulted or molested
VII. Automobile accident	Life-threatening automobile
VIII. Other life-threatening accident	Toxic chemical exposure
	Other life-threatening accident
	Other exposure to a made disaster (e.g. fire explosion at a place of work)
	Accidentally caused injury or death to someone
IX. Natural disaster	Natural disaster (e.g., flood, hurricane, earthquake)
X. Life-threatening illness	Life threatening illness or injury
XI. Death	Unexpected death of a loved one
XII. Other PLE to a loved one	Life-threatening illness of a loved one
	Any other trauma experienced by a loved one
XIII. Witnessed a traumatic injury or death	Witnessed death/dead body or saw someone seriously hurt
XIV. Witnessed family violence as a child	Witnessed repeated physical fights at home as a child
XV. Other	Any other objectively qualifying experiences (respondents are asked to describe these experiences)
	Private experiences (respondents are explicitly told in advance that they will not be asked to describe these experiences)