Role of childhood adversities and environmental sensitivity in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in war-exposed Syrian refugee children and adolescents
Karam, E., Fayyad, J., Farhat, C., Pluess, M., Haddad, Y., Tabet, C., . . . Kessler, R. (2019). The British Journal of Psychiatry, 214(6), 354-360. doi:10.1192/bjp.2018.272
This study of 549 Syrian refugees demonstrated that early childhood adversity was more important in determining the likelihood of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than the type or extent of experienced trauma.