The second most commonly reported TE was witnessing death, a dead body or someone seriously injured (23.7%; IQR = 18.0–27.3%) and represented 16.8% of all instances of TE exposure. It should be noted that the calculation of the proportion of all TE exposures considers not only the proportion of respondents ever experiencing each TE type but also how many times each type occurred. This explains why witnessing death, which occurred to fewer people than unexpected death of a loved one (23.7% v. 31.4%), nonetheless accounted for a similar proportion of all instances of TE exposures (16.8% v. 16.5%).
