Traumatic life events and risk of post-traumatic stress disorder among the Indigenous population of regional, remote and metropolitan Central-Eastern Australia: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Trauma is reported by 70% of the global population and 4% of those exposed develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but data from Indigenous populations are limited. We aimed to determine the prevalence, types and age of occurrence of traumatic events among community-living Indigenous Australians and associations with PTSD.

Design

Lifetime trauma and PTSD were quantified among a broadly representative sample of 544 Indigenous participants using a diagnostic clinical interview. Logistic regression examined predictors of PTSD.

Setting

Metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales.

Participants

Indigenous Australians 18 years and older.

Outcome measures

Prevalence of traumatic life events and ris

SUBMITTER: Nasir BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8061833 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature