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Table 4 PTSD symptoms

From: Assessing post-traumatic stress disorder in South African adolescents: using the child and adolescent trauma survey (CATS) as a screening tool

Rate of PTSD symptoms on the K-SADS

Rate of PTSD symptoms on the CATS

symptom

%

symptom

%

Comparable Symptoms

Recurrent thoughts or images of events

28

I go over and over what happened in my mind

40

Efforts to avoid thoughts or images associated with the trauma

28

I try not to think about what happened

47

Insomnia

22

I sleep poorly

26

Irritability or outbursts of anger

24

I am grouch and irritable

36

Distress at reminders of event

16

When something reminds me of what happened I get tense and upset

21

Exaggerated startle response

17

I am jumpy and nervous

29

Nightmares

16

I have bad dreams about what happened

9

Difficulty concentrating

19

I have trouble keeping my mind on things

28

Efforts to avoid activities or situations that arouse recollections of the trauma

21

I try to stay away from things that remind me of what happened

21

Non-comparable Symptoms

Sense of foreshortened future

3

I worry that what happened will happen again

57

Feelings of detachment or estrangement

21

I get scared when I think about what happened

38

Inability to recall important aspects of the trauma

10

I have unwanted thoughts about what happened

21

Restricted affect

28

  

Hypervigilance

17

  

Physiological reactivity upon exposure to reminders

9

  

Dissociative episodes, illusions or hallucinations

21

  

Diminished interest in activities

22

  

Repetitive play related to event / reenactment

2

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