Fig. 1.

Diagram describing the specific order of the scales in the questionnaire battery. The basic sociodemographic questionnaire was the first presented, succeeded by two parts. Part one was composed of the Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) [49, 50] and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist 5 (PCL-5) [52, 53], and part two contained the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) [58–60]. At the end of the THQ, participants had to indicate the event that they considered the most traumatic in their life and answer the PCL-5 based on this event