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Only about 20% of the differences in etiology and persistence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been attributable to individual risk factors such as sex, various trauma exposures, psychiatric history, and social supports. Now, investigators have explored associations between PTSD and neighborhood environments in a community sample from five Montreal neighborhoods.
Of 2392 participants, 47.7% reported exposure to at least one traumatic event, 2.2% with a past-year diagnosis of PTSD and 5.9% with remitted PTSD. Participants rated their environments for neighborhood disorder (e.g., defaced public structures, abandoned property, or disorderly conduct) and social cohesion (e.g., neighbors seemed helpful or to generally get along with o…