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Table 4 Prevalence of exposure to traumatic events and events perceived as most stressful.

From: Posttraumatic stress disorder among female street-based sex workers in the greater Sydney area, Australia

Trauma***

% (N = 72)**

% most stressful event*

Child sexual abuse (CSA)

  

ever experienced CSA

75 (54)

13 (9)

mean age of first CSA

7

 

reporting first CSA before age 6 years

26 (19)

 

reporting someone having vaginal sex with them before age 16 years

51 (37)

 

Rape

81 (58)

19 (13)

Physical assault

81 (58)

12 (8)

Witness serious injury or death

71 (51)

15 (10)

Threatened with a weapon/held captive

68 (49)

19 (13)

Child physical abuse

54 (39)

12 (8)

Life threatening accident

51 (37)

4 (3)

Child neglect

38 (27)

4 (3)

Natural disaster

26 (19)

1 (1)

  1. * Among those who had experienced a stressful event.
  2. **The figure in brackets represents the N that the percentage refers to.
  3. ***With the exception of some of the child sexual abuse items all trauma data presented in this table derives from the PTSD scale in the CIDI