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Table 1 GBV and other Criterion A event prevalence from the adapted Hindi HTQ (N = 111)

From: A pilot study adapting and validating the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) and PTSD checklist-5 (PCL-5) with Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence

Trauma type

%

n

Interpersonal physical violence

  

Been hit, beaten or kicked?

77.5

86

Witnessed someone being hit, beaten or kicked?

60.4

67

Witnessed someone being hit with an object/weapon/something thrown at them (e.g. boiling water or acid)?

30.6

34

Been threatened with violence?

29.7

33

Witnessed someone being threatened by violence?

25.2

28

Been hit with an object/weapon/had something thrown at you (e.g. boiling water or acid)?

24.3

27

Personally experienced a robbery or mugging?

18.9

21

Personally experienced police brutality when you did not commit a crime?

9.0

10

Been Involved in communal riots?

9.0

10

Sexual violence

  

Had someone touch your private parts when you did not want them to?

18.0

20

Made to touch someone’s private parts when you did not want to?

11.7

13

Made to have a hysterectomy or abortion?

10.8

12

Made to have sex with someone against your will?

7.2

8

Contracted a sexually transmitted disease from unwanted sex?

5.4

6

Coerced into commercial sex work?

2.7

3

Had a physical or sexual assault that resulted in miscarriage or infant harm?

2.7

3

Family-related and emotional violence

  

Learned about your husbamd having an affair?

28.8

32

Felt that someone else consistently made decisions for you?

26.1

29

Been ignored by a loved one for a long period of time?

20.7

23

Been consistently humiliated or made to feel small by someone?

20.7

23

Been called derogatory names for being a woman?

16.4

18

Been called derogatory names for bearing a girl child?

13.4

15

Experienced violence, coercion or bullying related to dowry?

9.1

10

Personally experienced a family member hurting your child in order to hurt you?

9.1

10

Were forced into an unwanted marriage?

5.4

6

Bereavement or loss

  

Experienced loss of a loved one due to unexpected or violent death?

57.5

64

Experienced loss or destruction of home/land?

18.0

20

Experienced forced separation from a child?

13.6

15

Experienced forced separation from a family member?

9.9

11

Physical and mass trauma

  

Survived a life-threatening medical illness?

21.6

24

Experienced starvation for an extended period of time?

18.0

20

Survived a serious accident (e.g. house fire or car accident)?

14.4

16

Survived a serious natural disaster (e.g. earthquake or flood)?

10.8

12

Other stressful experience?

0

0

  1. Event endorsement was not mutually exclusive