The epidemiology of PTSD in Canada

The scientific literature discussing prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the general Canadian population is relatively sparse. With the exception of a 2008 cross-sectional study in Canadians (Van Ameringen et al., 2008), the epidemiological data has come largely from the United States (Breslau et al., 1998). Despite being neighbours, Canada and the United States differ in many ways including their health care systems. As …