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member (n=3), stressful political news (n=2); death of a close friend (n=1), taking on
a significant mortgage (n=1) and moving home (n=1). These participants scored
significantly higher on the BDI-II (20.88 v. 2.4) and the PDS (21.38 v. 8.4) than those
who had not experienced stressful life events (n=5) during this period.
In conclusion, it can be said that while trauma related, individual, social, and cultural
variables made little difference in general psychological health, depression, and PTSD
severity, the experience of additional stressful social life events increased the
likelihood of poorer general psychological health and higher levels of depression and
PTSD symptom severity.
Therefore, improvements in scores across assessments were more likely to be a
function of services or interventions than exogenous events, especially for those
participants who experienced additional life stresses.