Main traumatic events in Europe: PTSD in the European study of the epidemiology of mental disorders survey

A potentially traumatic event (PTE) contributes to trauma through its frequency, conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and experience of other PTEs. A cross‐sectional survey was conducted, enrolling 21,425 adults nationally representative of six European countries. Using t...

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Published inJournal of traumatic stress Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 455 - 462
Main Authors Darves-Bornoz, Jean-Michel, Alonso, Jordi, de Girolamo, Giovanni, Graaf, Ron de, Haro, Josep-Maria, Kovess-Masfety, Viviane, Lepine, Jean-Pierre, Nachbaur, Gaëlle, Negre-Pages, Laurence, Vilagut, Gemma, Gasquet, Isabelle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germantown Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.10.2008
Wiley
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Data Collection
Europe - epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Middle Aged
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Prevalence
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk Factors
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Europe
Social environment
Human
Life events
Cross sectional study
Anxiety disorder
Risk factor
Mental health
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Epidemiology
Public health
Stress
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Summary:A potentially traumatic event (PTE) contributes to trauma through its frequency, conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and experience of other PTEs. A cross‐sectional survey was conducted, enrolling 21,425 adults nationally representative of six European countries. Using the WHO‐Composite International Diagnostic Interview, 8,797 were interviewed on 28 PTEs and PTSD. Prevalence of 12‐month PTSD was 1.1%. When PTSD was present, the mean number of PTEs experienced was 3.2. In a multivariate analysis on PTEs and gender, six PTEs were found to be more traumatic, and to explain a large percentage of PTSD, as estimated by their attributable risk of PTSD: rape, undisclosed private event, having a child with serious illness, beaten by partner, stalked, beaten by caregiver.
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This project was funded by the European Commission (Contract QLG5-1999-01042), SANCO 20040123, FIS (00/0028-02), SAF 2000-1800-CE, the Piedmont region (Italy), the Servei Catalá de la Salut (CatSalut) and other local agencies, and by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline. The ESEMeD Survey is carried out in conjunction with the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative (http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/). We thank the WMH coordinating staff both for their assistance with instrumentation and for their consultation on field procedures.
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This project was funded by the European Commission (Contract QLG5‐1999‐01042), SANCO 20040123, FIS (00/0028‐02), SAF 2000‐1800‐CE, the Piedmont region (Italy), the Servei Catalá de la Salut (CatSalut) and other local agencies, and by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.
We thank the WMH coordinating staff both for their assistance with instrumentation and for their consultation on field procedures.
http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/
The ESEMeD Survey is carried out in conjunction with the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative
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ISSN:0894-9867
1573-6598
DOI:10.1002/jts.20357