Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among trauma-exposed adolescents from low- and middle-income countries.
Dusko StuparDejan StevanovicPanos VostanisOlayinka AtilolaPaulo MoreiraKatarina Dodig-CurkovicTomislav FranicAna DoricNikolina DavidovicMohamad AvicennaIsa Noor MultazamLaura NussbaumAbdul Aziz ThabetDino UbaldePetar PetrovAzra DeljkovicAntonio Luis MonteiroAdriana RibasMirjana JovanovicOliveira JoanaRajna KnezPublished in: Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health (2021)
Nearly every third adolescent living in LMICs might have some PTSD symptoms after experiencing a traumatic event, while nearly one in ten might have sufficient symptoms for full DSM-5 PTSD diagnosis. The findings can inform the generation of PTSD burden estimates, allocation of health resources, and designing and implementing psychosocial interventions for PTSD in LMICs.