Table 3 Prevalence of adverse life event experience and adverse life event reexperience by lifetime PTSD diagnosis.

From: Prevalence and therapeutic impact of adverse life event reexperiencing under ceremonial ayahuasca

 

Adverse life event experienced

Adverse life event reexperienced

N

Participants reporting

Percentage

N

Participants reporting

Percentage

Intensity mean (SD)

PTSD sample

 Any ALE

32

32

100%a

31

19

61%c

3.90 (1.08)

 Any severe ALE

32

31

97%a

30

14

47%c

4.04 (1.21)

 Disaster

32

24

75%a

23

5

22%c

3.00 (1.59)

 Accident

32

16

50%a

15

2

13%c

5.00 (0.00)

 Physically assaulted

32

21

66%a

20

6

30%c

3.80 (1.79)

 Sexually assaulted

32

7

22%

7

2

29%

4.00 (2.00)

 Sex. uncomfortable

32

7

22%

6

1

17%

NA

 Illness/Injury

32

10

31%a

10

4

40%c

4.25 (1.50)

 Loss

32

21

66%a

10

10

100%c

3.67 (1.41)

 Perpetration

32

19

59%a

18

10

56%c

4.22 (1.56)

 Stressful experience

32

28

88%a

27

12

44%

3.83 (1.19)

Non-PTSD sample

 Any ALE

128

105

82%b

100

36

36%d

3.89 (1.02)

 Any severe ALE

128

58

45%b

57

13

23%d

4.08 (0.93)

 Disaster

128

23

18%b

23

1

4%d

3.00 (NA)

 Accident

128

26

20%b

26

2

8%d

4.00 (1.41)

 Physically assaulted

128

32

25%b

31

6

19%d

4.00 (1.26)

 Sexually assaulted

128

16

13%

15

5

33%

3.80 (1.30)

 Sex. uncomfortable

128

33

26%

31

6

19%

3.33 (1.51)

 Illness/Injury

128

13

10%b

13

3

23%d

5.00 (0.00)

 Loss

128

44

34%b

40

10

25%d

3.70 (1.34)

 Perpetration

128

8

6%b

7

1

14%d

5.00 (NA)

 Stressful experience

128

71

55%b

67

25

37%

4.17 (0.87)

  1. a and b indicate statistically significant differences between participants with and without a self-reported lifetime PTSD diagnosis in ALE experience. c and d indicate significant differences between samples in ALE reexperience.