trauma exposure risk_factor_for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is the most well-understood psychiatric outcome of trauma exposure

participants with PTSD demonstrated comparatively higher exposure to trauma, both over the lifetime and in childhood (p<.05)

exposure to trauma (or perceived exposure to trauma) is essential to PTSD

some women in our study who had not yet been exposed to trauma or developed PTSD are likely to do so in the future

As a PTSD diagnosis is contingent on trauma exposure, participants who did not endorse any traumatic experiences were coded as missing for PTSD.