Table 1

Included study demographic characteristics

StudynAge (years)Follow-upCountryFemale (%)Population
MinimumMaximumMeanSDData collection wavesLength (weeks)
Psychometrically driven
 Donohoe et al11331314312Scotland24.2Secondary school children
 Fortney et al123040.510.1436USA60.0Primary care clinicians
 Ritchie et al13731218352CanadaFirst Nation youth
 Songprakun and McCann1456185842.19.7312Thailand73.2Psychiatric outpatients
Definition-driven
 Boe et al157034.79.341274Norway0.0Disaster survivors
 Bonanno et al1618565726.5372USABereaved spouses
 Bonanno et al1718565726.5372USABereaved spouses
 Ho et al1876216638.99.2452ChinaHereditary gastrointestinal cancer registry
 Jaffee19206581610.964.54314454.0Maltreated children
 Mlinac et al2047079.95.84192USA74.9Community-dwelling older adults
 Netuveli et al213581503VariedUK57.2Community-dwelling older adults
 Solomon et al226431820IsraelVeterans; ex-POWs
 Werner4494936USAOffspring of alcoholics
Data-driven
 Bonanno and Mancini23 249974214352China61.0SARS epidemic survivors
 Bonanno et al252334104Austria, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK21.90Spinal cord injury
 deRoon-Cassini et al2633040.415.8424USATraumatic injury patients
 Dunn et al27398624USA100.0Breast cancer surgery patients
 Dunn et al28252726USA53.6Oncology patients; family caregivers
 Galatzer-Levy et al29234214327.424.784208USA15.4Police officers
 Galatzer-Levy et al30234214327.424.784208USA15.4Police officers
 Holgersen et al317041404Norway0.0Disaster survivors
 Hou et al32234298264.4410.55452China38.0Colorectal cancer
 Lam et al3328550.610.1432China100.0Breast cancer patients
 Lam et al3418656.29.1432China100.0Breast cancer survivors
 Larm et al35143216.51.4741300Sweden33.8Clinical substance abuse; general population
 Le Brocque et al3619061610.72.31324Australia37.0Accident victims
 Murphy and Marelich371116118.51.8472USA45.9Children of HIV/AIDS diagnosed mothers
 Norris et al38 39561472MexicoFlood victims
12674120USA
 Nugent et al402017181234144USAChildren referred to Family Advocacy Program
 Pietrzak et al4110 83545.39.63416USA13.49/11 responders
 Saad et al42398624USA100.0Breast cancer surgery patients
 Self-Brown et al4342681611.632.265100USA51Hurricane Katrina survivors
 Sterling et al44155186936.912.8452Australia63Whiplash patients
 Sveen et al4595198944.715.5352Sweden24.2Burn victims
 Tang et al4644748.912.6425Taiwan67.8Caregivers of terminal patients
 Zhu et al47217245654312USA67.0Chronic pain
  • POW, prisoner of war; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.