Cited by 185Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ResearchChild Abuse and TraumaMigration, Health and Trauma

Pervasive exposure to violence and posttraumatic stress disorder in a predominantly African American Urban Community: The Detroit neighborhood health study

Open access
Goldmann, Emily, Aiello, Allison, Uddin, Monica, Delva, Jorge, Koenen, Karestan, Gant, Larry M., Galea, Sandro·2011·Journal of Traumatic Stress

Abstract

Exposure to traumatic events is common, particularly among economically disadvantaged, urban African Americans. There is, however, scant data on the psychological consequences of exposure to traumatic events in this group. We assessed experience with traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 1,306 randomly selected, African American residents of Detroit. Lifetime prevalence of exposure to at least 1 traumatic event was 87.2% (assault = 51.0%). African Americans from Detroit have a relatively high burden of PTSD; 17.1% of those who experienced a traumatic event met criteria for probable lifetime PTSD. Assaultive violence is pervasive and is more likely to be associated with subsequent PTSD than other types of events. Further efforts to prevent violence and increase access to mental health treatment could reduce the mental health burden in economically disadvantaged urban areas.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1002/jts.20705

Cites

15 of 15 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The prevalence of both trauma and criminal justice system involvement are especially elevated in urban, low-income communities, regardless of race or gender.

    “Finally, the prevalence of both trauma and criminal justice system involvement are especially elevated in urban, lowincome communities, regardless of race or gender (Goldmann et al., 2011).”

    From Childhood Physical Abuse and Antisocial Traits: Mediating Role of Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Clusters (2022) · cites this paper as Goldmann et al., 2011

    The Abstract and Results (page numbers unavailable) report high trauma exposure among African American residents of Detroit, supporting the trauma portion of the claim. The paper does not report the prevalence of criminal justice system involvement, and its predominantly African American sample does not establish the claim regardless of race or gender. (LLM, conf=0.88)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Goldmann, E., Aiello, A., Uddin, M., Delva, J., Koenen, K., Gant, L. M., & Galea, S.
Affiliations
  • Columbia University (US)
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Wayne State University (US)
Corresponding author
Goldmann, Emily
Venue
Journal of Traumatic Stress
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2011-12
Volume
24
Issue
6
Pages
747-751
ISSN
  • 0894-9867 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-6598
OpenAlex
W2138049916
Cited by
185
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 6
FWCI
13.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
  • OpenBU (Boston University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH078928, K08MH070627)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA022720)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder, assault, African Americans, urban communities, Detroit, economic disadvantage, trauma prevalence, violence prevention, access to mental health care
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Black or African American, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Michigan, Middle Aged, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Urban Population, Violence, Young Adult, Checklist

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review