PTSD instrument asking, “Did you ever experience any other extremely upsetting or life-threatening event that I haven’t asked about yet?” and a question about events that the participant did not feel comfortable disclosing to the interviewer. While we lack details of the event type for this measure, prior studies have shown this “other” category to be particularly highly associated with psychiatric disorders.44 We created a variable to assess exposure to any PTE, and a count variable assessing exposure to no PTEs, to only one PTE type, two PTE types, and three or more PTE types (due to low frequencies above this number), based on the original 19 items from the PTSD checklist.
