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*Corresponding Author: Khalid Astitene, Health and Nutrition Research Team of the Mother and Child Couple, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Impasse Souissi 10100, Morocco
Citation: Khalid Astitene, Hassan Aguenaou, Laila Lahlou, and Amina Barkat (2020) Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among school-age adolescent; J. Psychology and Mental Health Care. 4(3); DOI: 10.31579/2637-8892/083
Copyright: © 2020 Khalid Astitene, This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original author and source are credited.
Received: 18 April 2020 | Accepted: 20 May 2020 | Published: 25 May 2020
Keywords: adolescent; student; traumatic event; post-traumatic stress disorder; comorbid disorders
Aim
After a traumatic event, the person can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the purpose of the study is to assess the prevalence of PTSD in adolescents in public middle schools of the prefecture of Salé in Morocco and study anxiety and depression which are the comorbid disorders of the PTSD.
Methods
523 students were selected by the cross-sectional method from twenty five schools that were randomly selected, the age of the students vary between 12 and 17 years. For the survey, standardized questionnaires (the socio-demographic data, the Life Events Checklist, the CPTS-RI, the STAIY and the CDI) were used which were filled in by the students.
Results
The prevalence of PTSD was 70.4% in the students who have PTSD. We found that the prevalence in boys was 46.74%, while in girls it was 53.26%. In addition to that, 81% of students found to be anxious and 51.8% of students have depression.
Conclusion
There is a high prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents. There are practical implications for the support and care of these adolescents.
According to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-5), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been categorized into anxiety disorders. It is characterized by the development of specific symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic event that has involved death, threat of death, serious injury and/or threat to the physical integrity of the person and/or others.
Among the traumatic events we found the social violence, assaults, natural or industrial disasters, road accidents, war situations and others.
Generally, the symptoms of PTSD in adolescents are similar to the symptoms of PTSD in adults [1].
According to an international consensus, almost all children and adolescents exposed to a traumatic event are likely to have immediate stress reactions, a significant proportion of which will develop into PTSD.
The adolescents may show specificities with extreme reactions than in adults such as becoming more impulsive or consuming substances in an abusive way [2].
We can observe in adolescents nightmares are common, there is emotional insensitivity, a conscious avoidance of anything that might remind one of the traumatic event, but also frequent depression, antisocial behaviour, somatic complaints, again decreased academic performance, sleep problems, suicidal ideation, that's why some studies have shown features of PTSD symptomatology in children and adolescents [3].
The psychological impact of PTSD can persist for many years and usually worsens when left untreated.
PTSD is often associated with other disorders that have the co-morbid conditions anxiety and depression. In this study, these PTSD, anxiety and depression had a direct and negative effect on students' school lives.
The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among adolescents attending public schools in the prefecture of Salé in Morocco. There are few studies that have investigated the impact of traumatic events experienced by school adolescents on their lives and especially on the appearance of PTSD and also the impact of PTSD on their social life and their school career. There are two co-morbid disorders, anxiety and depression, which are the most observed disorders after experiencing PTSD. These two co-morbid disorders will also be studied in this study.
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Population
The sample obtained was 750 students, the number of students who refused to participate in the study and did not provide informed consent was 158 adolescents and 69 adolescents who did not complete the questionnaires, that they had not experienced any traumatic events in their lives. Thus, the number of adolescents who participated in the study up to the end was 523 students enrolled in school with 272 female and 251 male students. The participation rate was 78.93% (592 adolescents who participated in the survey).
The inclusion criteria : Have lived or witnessed a potentially traumatic event, to be currently educated, being present at the school during the course of the study, do not go beyond the age of 17 years and have given informed consent.
The exclusion criteria: Do not be currently in school, exceed the age of 17 years, refuse to participate and do not have a mental disability.
2.2. Procedure
The research project began after receiving a research authorization from the Ministry of National Education, Morocco. A first meeting was held with the directors of the schools to explain the objective of our study and also to prepare the students of each school.
Students were interviewed directly at their school to assess their symptoms of PTSD [4, 5].
A second meeting was established with the students to explain the purpose and interest of the study and to answer their questions about how the study would be conducted, then I distributed an information letter for each student explaining the purpose of the study and I also distributed informed consents to be signed by their parents or guardians. In the third meeting and after receiving signed informed consents, the data was collected using two questionnaires (a socio-demographic questionnaire and a checklist of life events). In the fourth meeting, the rest of the data were collected using three questionnaires (CPTS-RI, STAIY and CDI successively) and the adolescents who had not experienced any traumatic event, they did not complete the questionnaires CPTS-RI, STAIY and CDI. All the questionnaires were completed by the adolescents themselves.
2.3. Materials
The different questionnaires used to collect data are successively:
- A questionnaire of socio-demographic data and the Life Events Checklist which presents stressful life events with 17 questions according to DSM-IV [6].
- The CPTS-RI (Children's Post Traumatic Stress Reaction Index) to assess symptoms of PTSD after exposure to a traumatic event [7], it is a scale of 20 items intended for children from 6 to 16 years old, each item of the scale is rated in 5 levels. The gradation into 4 categories according to the score is as follows: a score between 12 and 24 indicates a low level of PTSD, between 25 and 39 a moderate level, between 40 and 59 a severe level and a score of over 60 a very severe level.
- The STAIY (State Trait Inventory Anxiety Form Y, French version of Brochon-Schweitzer and Paulhan, 1993) [8], to evaluate the intensity of anxiety of adolescents, this scale includes 20 items, each answer to a questionnaire item corresponds to a score from 1 to 4 and the grades can be divided into five levels: higher than 65 (very high), 56 to 65 (high), 46 to 55 (medium), 36 to 45 (low), lower at 35 (very low). The last questionnaire is to assess the level of CDI depression (Children Depression Inventory) [7], this scale evaluates the intensity of the symptomatology depressed and the CDI includes 27 items, each item corresponds to three sentences and the student must choose the sentence that best corresponds to his condition in the last fifteen days, each item is scored from 0 (normal) to 2 (severe) and a total score is calculated by the sum of all items, it ranges from 0 to 54. All questionnaires were anonymous.
The analyses were carried out using SPSS statistical software version 13. Based on descriptive statistical analysis, data were presented by number of effective and percentage of effective. Continuous or quantitative variables were expressed as mean and standard deviation. The comparison of the quantitative variables was performed using the Student t test. The comparison of qualitative or categorical variables was performed by a chi-square test (χ2). A correlation was made for a comparison between the continuous variables using the Pearson correlation. p values < 0>
3. Results
3.1. Sociodemographic data and exposure to traumatic events
The average salary parental was 2.49 ± 1.40 dh (Moroccan dirham), which implies that it is around 2000 dh and 4000 dh per month.
The 523 students responded that they experienced one or more traumatic events during their lifetime and the percentage of students who were at least exposed to a traumatic event in their lifetime is 88.34%.
Of the 17 traumatic events all students did not experience the traumatic event the participation in a fight or presence in a war zone and the most traumatic event experienced is the sudden and unexpected death of a loved one with 33.1% of students.
The average date of traumatic event was 4.44 ± 1.73 months, which implies that this date was between 3 months and 6 months (Table 1).
The variable | Boys (%) | Girls (%) | Total (%) |
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Family situation of parents |
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| Married | 212 (40.55) | 212 (40.55) | 424 (81.1) | ||
Father's job |
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| Employed | 230 (44) | 234 (44.7) | 464 (88.7) | ||
| Unemployed | 6 (1.2) | 11 (2.1) | 17 (3.3) | ||
Mother’s job |
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| Employed | 21 (4) | 49 (9.5) | 70 (13.5) | ||
| Unemployed | 227 (43.4) | 220 (42.1) | 447 (85.5) | ||
Salary |
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| Under 2000dh | 79 (15.1) | 84 (16.1) | 163 (31.2) | ||
| Between 2000-4000dh | 72 (13.8) | 70 (13.4) | 142 (27.2) | ||
| Between 4000-6000dh | 40 (7.6) | 44 (8.5) | 84 (16.1) | ||
| Between 6000-8000dh | 37 (7.1) | 49 (9.4) | 86 (16.5) | ||
| More than 8000dh | 23 (4.4) | 25 (4.8) | 48 (9.2) | ||
Traumatic events |
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| The sudden and unexpected | 75 (14.4) | 98 (18.7) | 173 (33.1) | ||
| death of a loved one with |
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Date of event |
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| Between 1 month and 3 months | 44 (8.4) | 54 (10.3) | 98 (18.7) | ||
| Between 3 months and 6 months | 40 (7.6) | 41 (7.9) | 81 (15.5) | ||
| Between 6 months and one year | 39 (7.4) | 47 (9) | 86 (16.4) | ||
| Between 1 year and 3 years | 53 (10.1) | 48 (9.2) | 101 (19.3) | ||
| Between 3 year and 5 years | 34 (6.5) | 32 (6.1) | 66 (12.6) | ||
| More than 5 years | 41 (7.8) | 50 (9.6) | 91 (17.4) | ||
Dh: Moroccan dirham.
Table 1. The distribution of the number and percentage of boys and girls according to the variables
3.2. Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid disorders
According to the CPTS-RI scores we'd found 368 (70.4%) adolescents with PTSD (24.9% PTSD low, 30.6% PTSD moderate, 13.2% PTSD severe and only 1.7% PTSD very severe) and 155 adolescents (29.6%) without PTSD and we’d found 46.7% in boys with PTSD, while in girls 53.3% with PTSD (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The percentage of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among school-aged adolescents
For the group with PTSD, we'd found 168 girls (45.6%) with anxiety, while in boys 134 (36.4%) with anxiety and also we'd found 118 girls (32.1%) with depression, while in boys 79 (21.5%) with depression.
Whereas for comorbid disorders we’d found 81.07% with anxiety (31.74% low anxiety, 24.66% moderate anxiety, 15.87% high anxiety, 8.80% very high anxiety) (Figure 2) and 51.82% with depression (Figure 3).
Figure 2. The percentage of anxiety among school-aged adolescents
Figure 3. The percentage of depression among school-aged adolescents
The score of CPTS-RI at the adolescents with PTSD is raised more than the adolescents without PTSD (p = 0.000).
Students with PTSD were more depressed than students without PTSD (p = 0.019) and these students with PTSD were more anxious than students without PTSD (p = 0.028).
Unfortunately, a high rate of students (71%) reported that they had done poorly in school.
The difference between the group with PTSD and the group without PTSD was significant in terms of living environment (p = 0.000).
There is a significant relationship between father’s job and PTSD status of the adolescent (p = 0.012).
There is no significant relationship between salary and PTSD status of the adolescent (p = 0.32) and there is no significant relationship between mother’s job and PTSD status of the adolescent (p = 0.78) (Table 2).
SD = standard deviation.
t = Student t test.
χ2 = chi-square test.
p = significance.
Table 2. Difference of salary, scores of the scales and parent’s job between adolescents without PTSD and adolescents with PTSD
Girls were more CPTS-RI score than boys with a significant relationship (p = 0.000), so the girls present more PTSD than boys.
Girls were more anxious and depressive than boys with a significant relationship respectively (p = 0.000) and (p = 0.000).
Girls were more traumatic events than boys with a significant relationship (p = 0.000) (Table 3).
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Boys (mean ± SD)
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Girls (mean ± SD)
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t |
p |
χ2 |
p |
Age (years) | 14.34 ± 1.39 | 14.11 ± 1.32 | 1.96 | 0.05 |
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CPTS-RI score | 22.41 ± 11.86 | 27.89 ± 15.76 | 4.46 | 0.000 |
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STAIY score | 43.57± 11.61 | 48.97 ± 13.10 | 4.98 | 0.000 |
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CDI score | 14.57 ± 6.56 | 17.17 ± 7.58 | 4.17 | 0.000 |
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Traumatic event |
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| 47.12 | 0.000 |
SD = standard deviation.
t = Student t test.
χ2= chi-square test.
p = significance.
Table 3. Difference of age, scores of the scales and traumatic event between boys and girls
As the age increased, so did the level of PTSD (p = 0.003), the level of anxiety (p = 0.000) and the level of depression (p = 0,000) increased.
The more the level of PTSD has increased, the poor academic performance (p = 0.036) increased.
The more the level of PTSD has increased, the more the student's desire to commit suicide has increased (p = 0.000).
As the level of PTSD increased, so did the level of anxiety (p=0,000) and depression (p=0,000) increased.
As the higher the level of PTSD (r = 0.48 and p = 0.000), the more the student had difficulty remembering things they learned at school or at home increased.
The more the level of PTSD has increased, the more the student does not do his homework (r = 0.12 and p = 0.005), the concentration (r = 0.34 and p = 0.000).
The more the concentration decreases, the more the poor academic results have increased (r = -0.09 and p = 0.050) (Table 4).
variable 1 – variable 2 | r | p |
Age - PTSD |
0.13 |
0.003 |
Age - Level of anxiety | 0.24 | 0.000 |
Age - Level of depression | 0.18 | 0.000 |
PTSD - Academic performance | 0.09 | 0.036 |
PTSD - Suicide | 0.21 | 0.000 |
PTSD - Level of anxiety | 0,41 | 0.000 |
PTSD - Level of depression | 0,36 | 0.000 |
r = Pearson correlation
p = significance.
Table 4. The correlation between the variables
4. Discussion
Among the most serious disorders after a traumatic event is post-traumatic stress disorder [9] PTSD; this disorder will be the objective of our study by calculating its prevalence in the prefecture of Salé in Morocco in government college schools.
The CPTS-RI scale was used in this study, which is why the age of adolescents should not exceed 17 years according to several studies in the scientific literature [10, 11].
There are reasons why adolescents do not tell their parents everything about the traumatic event [12, 13] and why parents may overlook their child's PTSD symptoms [14, 15], so it is important to ask these adolescents directly about these symptoms.
There are peculiarities in the symptoms of PTSD for adolescents compared to adults, but in general there is a great similarity in these symptoms [16, 17]. Adolescents experience trauma more often than adults [18]. The prevalence of exposure to at least one traumatic event in a lifetime would approach 100% [19, 20]. The event most reported by adolescents is the death of a family member and others [20].
For our study, the sudden and unexpected death of a loved one was found to be the most common traumatic event among adolescents with 33.1% of adolescents and the percentage of adolescents who were at least exposed to a traumatic event during their lifetime is 88.34%.
According to some studies, boys experience more traumatic events than girls, but girls may develop more PTSD than boys [21, 22].
Socially and psychologically, adolescents are less prepared than adults to cope with trauma [23], which is why they are more likely to develop PTSD [24] and what also increases the risk of developing PTSD after a traumatic event is that adolescents experience problems in emotional regulation and behavior (25). Depending on age and type of trauma and studies show that the prevalence of PTSD is high with 25% to 50% [26, 27] and according to other studies, the prevalence of PTSD can be as high as 80% [28] and in other studies, this prevalence can reach up to 90% [29, 30]. According to the results of some studies, the prevalence of PTSD remains high among people with traumatic events such as the loss of a close family member, friend or other close relative [31, 32].
Adolescents in low-income countries have a higher prevalence of PTSD than those living in high-income countries, which is why these adolescents in low-economy countries are more likely to present PTSD after an event and the same for adolescents who belong to a minority ethnic community [31, 33].
Several studies show that prevalence of PTSD varies depending on the differences between the populations studied (sex, age, living environment, ethnic origin, etc.), the instruments used, the type of trauma and the severity of the symptoms [34].
For our study, we found a high prevalence of PTSD with 70.4% with different levels of severity and this is because of the different problems of the students' adolescence, the age of these adolescents and the conditions of the country where the study was conducted which is a developing country.
According to the results of our study, students who have PTSD, we found 46.74% in boys, while in girls 53.26%; therefore girls have a higher PTSD rate than boys, Girls have more PTSD than boys [17]. Adolescents enrolled in school with PTSD may experience severe academic performance problems and low academic achievement, increasing the risk of repeating the school year
In processing the results of our study for students with PTSD, we found that 18.75% have difficulty remembering things that the student has learned at school, 33.42% have difficulty concentrating and therefore we can explain the high rate of 71% of students with declining school results. We also found 6.52% of the students with suicidal ideas [18, 28].
PTSD is often associated with other co-morbid medical conditions, in our study we limited ourselves to the two co-morbid conditions most often associated with PTSD, which are anxiety and depression [35]. Thus, we found in the scientific literature that nearly 75% of adolescents with a comorbid disorder have PTSD [36]. With respect to the prevalence of anxiety and depression among adolescents with PTSD, in our study, 82% of the students were found to have anxiety and 53.5% were found to have depression. Namely, adolescents are more vulnerable to anxiety and depression [37].
If a disorder associated with PTSD, especially comorbid disorders of anxiety and depression, is present, these disorders influence the intensity of the maintenance of PTSD and the symptomatology of PTSD [38, 39].
In comparison with the sexes, several studies confirm that girls may have more symptoms of PTSD and more associated anxiety and depression disorders than boys [40]. In our study, girls were found to have more comorbid disorders than boys: adolescent girls with PTSD had more comorbid disorders (anxiety and depression) with 88.3% than adolescents with 79% who present this PTSD disorder.
5. Conclusion
Negative impacts of PTSD on the lives of school-aged adolescents can be problems in interpersonal relationships and poor academic performance that can lead to academic failure and there may be other consequences of PTSD including comorbid disorders which are anxiety and depression.
For practical implications, there are several effective treatments for PTSD, the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Alternatively and the pharmacotherapy to control the various symptoms of PTSD. After the various therapeutic treatments, partial or total remission of PTSD can be as high as 90%.
6. Limitations of the research
The use of self-report for data collection. However, the developmental literature suggests that
overall, children provide more reliable information about their internalizing states than other informants (e.g., parents). On the other hand, several researchers have speculated that children and adolescents are more willing to exaggerate their responses and report more severe symptoms. Ideally, data should be obtained from multiple informants, including parents, teachers, and classmates to present a more complete picture of traumatic event experiences and reactions. It was also noted that children and adolescents tend to repeatedly discuss their experiences with each other; hence, this sharing of stories might influence their reports of their own experiences. Future studies that examine adolescents’ reactions over a more extended period of time are preferable. These longitudinal studies may help to clarify the long-term course of PTSD symptoms as well as other reactions. The presence of funding could be beneficial for this study because there was a total lack of funding.
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