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Chunk #7 — Method and materials — Measures — Exposure to traumatic experiences

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Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with natural and human-made disasters in the World Mental Health Surveys.
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in a war zone, refugee); five related to participation in organized violence (e.g. combat experience, saw atrocities); three of exposure to interpersonal violence (witnessed violence at home as a child, beaten by a caregiver as a child, beaten by someone else other than a romantic partner); seven related to sexual violence (e.g. raped, sexually assaulted, beaten by a romantic partner); six of accidents/injuries (e.g. natural disaster, toxic chemical exposure, motor vehicle accident); and a final three not strongly correlated with other TEs (mugged or threatened with a weapon, exposure to a human-made disaster other than toxic chemical exposure, unexpected death of someone close) (Benjet et al. 2016).