or killed; a flood, earthquake, large fire, or other disaster; an airplane crash or serious car accident; a shooting or bombing; or any situation where you feared there was a serious threat to your life or to the life of another person. Endorsements of traumatic events that did not involve direct physical or sexual trauma were then coded as “non-physical or sexual.” Because exposure to non-physical or non-sexual trauma was overly prevalent in this sample (64.4%), the present analyses focused on direct sexual and physical traumatic events only. A total of 50.5% of cases and 28.7% of controls endorsed exposure to either sexual or physical trauma; details are provided in Table 1. Variables on childhood physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect were available, although these data were deemed unreliable due to the large number of missing (unknown) values representing 71.14%, 71.97%, and 85.98% of the available data, respectively.
