ABSTRACT
This study surveys the prevalence of exposed traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder among the high school students.
A total of 735 students were selected by stratified cluster sampling. The self-report trauma checklists and Mississippi Scale were used.
The most common traumatic experiences were "witnessing or being in a bad car accident," "getting some really bad news unexpectedly," and witnessing violence. The last 2 experiences were more common among girls. The rate of the subjects who scored more than the cutoff point in the Mississippi Scale was 27.2%.
There is an extremely high rate of exposed trauma rate, and approximately one third of them have posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.