Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLESVictimization and PTSD in a Danish National Youth Probability Sample
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Subjects
The data in this study were collected from a questionnaire survey with a national representative probability sample of 390 youngsters aged 13 to 15. The sample was geographically stratified by 10 regions, with sample allocation proportionate to the Danish population distribution. Thirty schools that taught eighth-grade students were approached. Twenty-two schools accepted and participated (73.3% coverage). Each class consisted of 12 to 25 pupils (average 17.7), and an average of 0.9 pupils (95%
RESULTS
The most common event recorded (Table 1) was the death of a family member, followed by a threat of being beaten, humiliation or persecution by others, near-drowning, and traffic accident. Least prevalent were sexual abuse, rape, pregnancy/abortion, severe childhood neglect, and physical abuse. The prevalence of the indirect exposure to traumatic events was generally higher than the direct exposure. The most noticeable exception was the death of a family member, which seems to be more of a
DISCUSSION
While there has been widespread interest in studying victims of violence among adolescents, there seems to a remarkable lack of similar studies that include other types of victimization. According to Giaconia et al. (1995), there have been few community studies assessing the prevalence of a full range of trauma identified in the DSM-III-R or the corresponding rates of PTSD associated with these diverse types of trauma. This study revealed a larger number of traumatic and life events, including
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