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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Lat Psychol. 2017 May 1;6(3):159–174. doi: 10.1037/lat0000090

Table 3.

Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Descriptive Information

n %
Standard trauma assessment categories
 Child physical abuse 43 32.8%
 Physical assault 25 19.1%
 Sexual assault 9 6.9%
 Witnessing community violence 68 51.9%
 Witnessing domestic violence 19 14.5%
 Non-assaultive trauma 63 48.1%
In-transit trauma
 Any 39 29.8%
 Reported during standard assessment 7 5.3%
 In-transit events missed by standard assessment‡‡ 32 24.4%
 Immigration process as trauma‡‡‡ 28 21.4%
Mental health outcomes Mean SD
PTSD* symptom sum
 Overall sample 2.55 3.87
 Youth indicating immigration process as trauma 4.82 5.28
Depression symptom sum
 Overall sample 1.58 2.12
 Youth indicating immigration process as trauma 2.89 2.71

Note:

*

Posttraumatic stress disorder;

During the trauma assessment prior to immigration-specific trauma module, youth were asked if any event they endorsed occurred during immigration;

‡‡

This represents the traumatic events that were only reported during the immigration-specific module, but belonged to a category that was assessed during the standard assessment;

‡‡‡

This represents the number of youth who reported that the immigration process was traumatic, but had not endorsed a traumatic event during immigration that could be otherwise classified (e.g., witnessing violence)