TABLE 3.  Association of Specific Traumas with PTSD*

 

 

Trauma

Men (%) (N=2812)

Women (%)
(N=3065)

Any Trauma

 8.1

20.4

**Rape

65.0

45.9

**Molestation

12.2

26.5***

**Physical Attack

 1.8

21.3***

**Physical Abuse

22.3

48.5***

Combat

38.8

--***

Threat with Weapon

 1.9

32.6***

Accident

 6.3

8.8

Natural Disaster with Fire

 3.7

5.4

Witness Trauma

 6.4

7.5

Neglect

23.9

19.7

 

*      Abstracted from Kessler et al., 1995 (3)

**    Interpersonal Violence.

***  Significant gender difference p<.05 (two-tailed test)

 

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