Table 4.

Five studies conducted since 2008 that Report PTSD prevalence in Kenyan children and adolescents

Authors/year	Year data collected	Kenya region	Urban/Rural	N	Age	Setting	PTSD instrument used	Time-frame of exposure	PTSD prevalence
Njoroge et al. 2014	2013	Eldoret Sub-County	Urban, peri-urban, and rural slum	192	13–15	Primary day schools	Child Impact of Event Scale, Revised Version	Lifetime PTE experience	45.5%
								Past 2-week PTSD symptoms
Atwoli et al. 2014	2010–2012	Uasin Gishu County Western Kenya-Rift Valley	Rural and Urban	1565	10–18	Street setting	Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C)	Lifetime PTE experience	Street youth 28.8%
						Households			Households 15.0%
						Charitable Institutions	Child PTSD Checklist	Past month PTSD symptoms	Charitable Institutions 11.5%
Karsberg and Elklit 2012	2012	Central & Northern Kenya	Rural	477	13–20	Secondary boarding school	Harvard Trauma Question-naire	Lifetime PTE experience	34.5%
						-1 girls’ school		Past month PTSD symptoms
						−2 boys’ schools
Harder et al. 2012	2008	Nairobi informal settlement	Urban	552	6–18	Non-school location 2 villages in largest informal settlement	UCLA-RI	Lifetime PTE experience	18.0%
								Past month PTSD symptoms
Current Study	2008	Kiambu West and Kasarni	Rural and Urban	2439	11–17	Primary schools (11–13 yrs)	UCLA-RI	Past year PTE experiences	26.8%
Current Study						Secondary schools (14–17 yrs)		Past month PTSD symptoms