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Table 1 Distribution of lifetime exposure to traumatic experiences and motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) in the participating World Mental Health surveys

From: Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with life-threatening motor vehicle collisions in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

 

Proportion of respondents exposed to any lifetime traumatic experience

Proportion of respondents exposed to any lifetime MVC perceived as life-threatening

Mean number of reported MVCs among those with any

Reported MVCs as a proportion of all lifetime traumatic experiences

(n) of respondents with randomly selected MVCsa

 

%

(SE)

%

(SE)

Mean

(SE)

%

(SE)

High

         

 Germany

67.3

(2.2)

9.1

(1.1)

1.1

(0.0)

3.8

(0.6)

(20)

 Israel

74.8

(0.7)

11.6

(0.5)

1.3

(0.0)

4.7

(0.2)

(35)

 Spain

54.0

(1.7)

14.1

(1.2)

1.3

(0.0)

12.3

(1.1)

(58)

 Spain (Murcia)

62.4

(1.9)

11.9

(0.7)

1.3

(0.1)

9.6

(1.1)

(39)

 United States

82.7

(0.9)

19.2

(0.9)

1.5

(0.0)

6.0

(0.2)

(168)

 Total

73.0

(0.6)

14.6

(0.4)

1.4

(0.0)

6.0

(0.1)

(320)

Low or middle

         

 Bulgaria

28.6

(1.3)

6.9

(0.9)

1.4

(0.1)

12.8

(1.4)

(31)

 Lebanon

81.1

(2.7)

12.8

(1.4)

1.3

(0.1)

4.4

(0.5)

(17)

 Colombia (Medellin)

75.1

(2.6)

18.4

(1.7)

1.4

(0.1)

6.5

(0.6)

(52)

 Mexico

68.8

(1.8)

15.3

(1.2)

1.3

(0.0)

6.8

(0.5)

(42)

 Peru

83.1

(0.8)

20.1

(1.2)

1.4

(0.0)

7.4

(0.4)

(34)

 Romania

41.5

(1.1)

9.3

(0.6)

1.4

(0.1)

10.2

(0.8)

(63)

 South Africa

73.8

(1.2)

13.2

(0.6)

1.2

(0.0)

5.1

(0.2)

(52)

 Ukraine

84.6

(1.7)

21.1

(1.3)

1.3

(0.0)

7.3

(0.6)

(38)

 Total

65.6

(0.6)

14.1

(0.4)

1.3

(0.0)

6.6

(0.2)

(329)

Total

69.1

(0.4)

14.3

(0.3)

1.4

(0.0)

6.3

(0.1)

(649)

  1. aThe surveys considered here are limited to the subset of World Mental Health surveys that obtained information about TE characteristics associated with one randomly selected lifetime traumatic experience for each respondent and in which a sufficient number of respondents with a randomly selected MVC was included for at least one such respondent to have met DSM-IV/CIDI criteria for PTSD associated with that MVC