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The prevalence of traumatic events in young Japanese women
Author(s) -
Mizuta Ichiro,
Ikuno Teruko,
Shimai Satoshi,
Hirotsune Hideto,
Ogasawara Masayuki,
Ogawa Asao,
Honaga Eiko,
Inoue Yoichi
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20001
Subject(s) - psychology , traumatic stress , young adult , demography , injury prevention , psychiatry , anxiety disorder , suicide prevention , posttraumatic stress , clinical psychology , poison control , medicine , developmental psychology , environmental health , anxiety , sociology
In an effort to address important cross‐cultural considerations in the study of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the present study is the first to assess the prevalence of a variety of potentially traumatic events among young Japanese women across life phases. Overall, our results proved similar to those reported in previous Western studies: Traumatic events were quite common among our participants (80.3%; n = 883). This finding is not surprising given that many of them lived through the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Yet our study found that even when “natural disaster'' was excluded, the rate remained 53.1%. Comparing four life phases, we found the most consistent differences between preschool and other life phases. The prevalence of potentially traumatic events and the percentage of most distressing events that participants reported were significantly lower in the preschool phase.