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Ten years after the genocide: Trauma confrontation and posttraumatic stress in Rwandan adolescents *
Author(s) -
Schaal Susanne,
Elbert Thomas
Publication year - 2006
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.20104
Subject(s) - genocide , psychology , posttraumatic stress , vulnerability (computing) , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , medical emergency , computer security , political science , computer science , law , pathology
A decade after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we interviewed a total of 68 Rwandan orphans about their war experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. The two samples comprised youth living either in a child‐headed household (CHH) or in an orphanage. All had been exposed to extreme levels of violence and 41% had witnessed the murder of their own mother or father. Of the sample, 44% had PTSD. PTSD vulnerability was greater for youth who at the time of the study lived in CHH than those in an orphanage; it was also higher in those aged 8 to 13 during the outbreak of the genocide than those aged 3 to 7 at the time. Furthermore, a significant relationship was found between the number of traumatic experiences and subsequent stress responses.

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