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Table 1 Frequency of psychotic-like symptoms

From: Trauma exposure, PTSD and psychotic-like symptoms in post-conflict Timor Leste: an epidemiological survey

PSQ domain

Weighted positive endorsement

Number of respondents (unweighted)

Hypomania

  

Over the past year, have there been times when you felt very happy without a break for days on end?

10.7%

128

Was there an obvious reason for this? (No)

7.5%

89

Did your relatives or friends think it was strange or complain about it?

0.2%

2

Thought insertion

  

Over the past year, have you ever felt that your thoughts were directly interfered with or controlled by some outside force or person?

6.5%

78

Did this come about in a way that many people would find hard to believe, for instance through telepathy?

3.4%

41

Paranoia

  

Over the past year, have there been times when you felt people were against you?

18.4%

223

Have there been times when you felt that people were deliberately acting to harm you or your interests?

9.3%

112

Have there been times when you felt that a group of people were plotting to cause you serious harm or injury?

5.4%

65

Strange experiences

  

Over the past year, have there been times when you felt that something strange was going on?

8.1%

97

Did you feel it was so strange that other people would find it very hard to believe?

5.4%

65

Hallucinations

  

Over the past year, have there been times when you heard or saw things that other people couldn’t?

4.3%

52

Did you at any time hear voices saying quite a few words or sentences when there was no-one around that might account for it?

2.5%

30

Any psychotic symptom (yes to one or more probe questions)

29.7%

363

Met criteria based on secondary question(s)

12.3%

150