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They were assessed 10\u2009years after the ISIS attacks for their experience of various traumatic events and their association with posttraumatic stress, depression, and complicated grief (CG) symptoms related to the genocide. Participants completed the Life Events Checklist for the\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/jats:italic>\n                      , 5th Edition (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">DSM-5<\/jats:italic>\n                      ) (LEC-5), the PTSD Checklist for\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">DSM-5<\/jats:italic>\n                      (PCL-5), the Hamilton Depression Scale, and the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG). Modified Poisson log-linear models provided prevalence ratios of posttraumatic stress symptoms by types of traumatic events and exposures and associations with the number of traumatic events.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The vast majority (94.67%) reported direct personal exposure to any traumatic event. Trauma prevalence by trauma type ranged from 6.4% for war\/armed conflict-related events to 74.6% for sexual\/physical assault by ISIS terrorists. Overall posttraumatic stress symptom threshold varied substantially across trauma types, being lowest for natural disaster (29\/56, 4.21%) and highest for sexual assault (215\/287, 31.3%), with 193\/488, 39.4% exceeding PTSD threshold for any trauma. The proportions exceeding symptom thresholds for depression and CG were 28.9% and 66.6% respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The extensive exposure to trauma by Yazidi people and the resulting psychological toll calls for a major community effort to prevent sexual and physical violence and provide desperately needed mental health services.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/00207640251377113","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,2]],"date-time":"2025-10-02T06:24:47Z","timestamp":1759386287000},"page":"626-637","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Trauma and Stress-Related Symptoms Among Yazidi Survivors of the 2014 ISIS Genocide in Iraq"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"72","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1992-7589","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fuaad Mohammed","family":"Freh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences, University Of Anbar, College of Education for Humanities, Ramadi, Iraq"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Carol S.","family":"North","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Abbas N. 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