Table 1.

Types and frequencies of traumatic events

Trauma type	Events	% total events	% participants	Worst event	% participantsa	Criterion A met	% participantsa
Tsunami	187	16.0	45.2	123	30.3	105	25.7
Other disaster	73	6.2	17.6	23	5.6	15	3.6
Bad accident	114	9.7	27.5	31	7.6	20	4.9
Medical procedure	113	9.6	27.3	46	11.2	28	6.8
Sexual abuseb	11	0.9	2.7	4	1.0	3	0.7
Physical abuse at homeb	83	7.1	20.0	16	3.9	15	3.7
Physical abuse outside homeb	31	2.6	7.5	5	1.2	3	0.7
Saw violence at homeb	94	8.0	22.7	26	6.4	15	3.7
Saw violence outside home	92	7.9	22.2	36	8.8	26	6.4
Saw a dead body	156	13.3	37.7	60	14.7	37	9.0
Violent death or injury of loved one	144	12.3	34.8	71	17.4	54	13.2
War	17	1.5	4.1	6	1.5	6	1.5
Other	56	4.8	13.5	13	3.2	11	2.7
Total	1,171	100.0	100.0	461	98.3	338	71.2

^a Because 5 of the 414 participants did not identify a “worst event”, n = 409 here. ^b Trauma types defined as “abusive event” in the analysis