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. 2021 Nov 24;16(11):e0259576. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259576

Table 2. Describes the conditions diagnosed by PHR medical experts.

Gender Age Country of Origin Diagnoses
Psychiatric Diagnoses in Adults (16 out of 19)
Male 33 Honduras Criteria not met for DSM-V diagnoses (but patient exhibited several symptoms suggestive of trauma)#
Female Adult* Guatemala PTSD, MDD with anxious distress
Female 45 El Salvador PTSD
Female 29 Guatemala PTSD, MDD
Female 30 Honduras PTSD
Female 27 Guatemala Complex PTSD
Female 24 [Redacted] Features of PTSD, MDD, GAD, no official diagnoses
Female Adult* El Salvador PTSD
Female 29 Honduras MDD, features of PTSD, GAD
Female 24 Honduras MDD, PTSD
Female 26 Honduras PTSD, MDD, recurrent, severe
Male 32 Honduras PTSD, features of GAD, MDDψ
Female 28 El Salvador PTSD
Female 39 Honduras PTSD, MDD, recurrent and severe
Male 40 El Salvador PTSD
Female Adult* Honduras PTSD
Male 36 El Salvador Criteria not met for DSM-V diagnoses (but patient exhibited several symptoms suggestive of trauma)
Female 35 Guatemala PTSD
Female 36 Guatemala PTSD, MDD
Psychiatric Diagnoses in Children (12 out of 12)
Male 9 Honduras PTSD
Male 17 El Salvador PTSD
Male 8 Honduras PTSD, MDD recurrent, moderate
Female 6 Guatemala PTSD, separation anxiety disorder, Depression
Female 7 El Salvador separation anxiety disorder
Male 8 Honduras PTSD
Male 6 Guatemala PTSD, split personality features, anxiety, depression
Male 8 Honduras Depression, anxiety
Female 6 Guatemala PTSD
Male 16 Guatemala PTSD
Female 14 El Salvador PTSD
Male 8 Honduras PTSD, separation anxiety disorder

* Ages of three mothers were redacted at their attorneys’ request.

# The client continues to have difficulty thinking about the separation from his daughter, avoids speaking about it, becomes visibly emotional and tearful when he does and is fearful they will be separated again, but was reluctant to speak about his own difficulties, wanting to focus on his family’s needs. The evaluator pointed to multiple resilience factors which are attributed to his psychological wellbeing, including his commitment to his family, his religious faith and his realistic optimism about the future.

ψ The client was described as “overtly distressed and tearful on several occasions when describing past experiences” but appeared to “minimize the severity of his symptoms, as evidenced by the mood scores he provided, which were not always consistent with his affect during the course of the evaluation”. The evaluator attributed this discrepancy to “his longstanding limited insight, which is most likely due to his education, social, and cultural backgrounds”.