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01-12-2018 | Correction
Correction to: PTSD and gender: could gender differences in war trauma types, symptom clusters and risk factors predict gender differences in PTSD prevalence?
Authors:
Laila Farhood, Souha Fares, Carmen Hamady
Published in:
Archives of Women's Mental Health
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Issue 6/2018
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Excerpt
Individuals residing in countries torn by violent conflicts or wars may face detrimental mental and physical consequences. The Lebanese population has witnessed armed conflicts and Israeli occupation of the South for over 20 years (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),
2016). The most recent in July 2006 on the Lebanese-Israeli border resulted in over 1109 Lebanese civilian casualties, 4399 injuries, and over one million internally displaced persons (Bouckaert and Houry
2007). Unsurprisingly, the prevalence rates for psychiatric morbidity, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), among civilian populations in the South were found to range from 17.6 to 33.3% across different samples (Farhood and Dimassi
2012; Farhood, Dimassi, and Lehtinen
2006; Saab et al.
2003). …