{"id":1038,"date":"2014-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sltr.local\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2023-09-15T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T10:33:50","slug":"trauma-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-psychiatric-disorders-in-a-middle-income-setting-prevalence-and-comorbidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/publication\/trauma-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-psychiatric-disorders-in-a-middle-income-setting-prevalence-and-comorbidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychiatric disorders in a middle-income setting: prevalence and comorbidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"publication-container\" class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-2e89abbb alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-8024b029\">\n<p>Sarah Dorrington, Helena Zavos, Harriet Ball, Peter McGuffin, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala &amp; Matthew Hotopf<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"publish-date wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2014-11-01T12:00:00+00:00\">November 2014<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/category\/publication\/papers\/\" rel=\"tag\">Papers<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/category\/publication\/\" rel=\"tag\">Publication<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 205, Issue 5, Pages 383 \u2013 389<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>doi:<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1192\/bjp.bp.113.141796\" target=\"_blank\">10.1192\/bjp.bp.113.141796<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-33811260\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><br>Most studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have focused on \u2018high-risk\u2019 populations defined by exposure to trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aims<\/strong><br>To estimate the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a LMIC, the conditional probability of PTSD given a traumatic event and the strength of associations between traumatic events and other psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><br>Our sample contained a mix of 3995 twins and 2019 non-twins. We asked participants about nine different traumatic exposures, including the category \u2018other\u2019, but excluding sexual trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><br>Traumatic events were reported by 36.3% of participants and lifetime PTSD was present in 2.0%. Prevalence of non-PTSD lifetime diagnosis was 19.1%. Of people who had experienced three or more traumatic events, 13.3% had lifetime PTSD and 40.4% had a non-PTSD psychiatric diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><br>Despite high rates of exposure to trauma, this population had lower rates of PTSD than high-income populations, although the prevalence might have been slightly affected by the exclusion of sexual trauma. There are high rates of non-PTSD diagnoses associated with trauma exposure that could be considered in interventions for trauma-exposed populations. Our findings suggest that there is no unique relationship between traumatic experiences and the specific symptomatology of PTSD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-8b71c1c5\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-68630121\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-5e518491\">\n<p>Website:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-87ee0c4a\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry\/article\/trauma-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-and-psychiatric-disorders-in-a-middleincome-setting-prevalence-and-comorbidity\/18D19A963C2063421B7D5473E3B926D6\">Trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychiatric disorders in a middle-income setting: prevalence and comorbidity | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-0fcdaf73\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-aa1e510a\">\n<p>PDF:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-8d389701\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ird.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trauma-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-psychiatric-disorders-in-a-middle-income-setting.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ird.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trauma-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-psychiatric-disorders-in-a-middle-income-setting.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have focused on \u2018high-risk\u2019 populations defined by exposure to trauma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","category-publication"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"si","enabled_languages":["en","si","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"si":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Most studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have focused on \u2018high-risk\u2019 populations defined by exposure to trauma.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sltr.ird.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}