Our Study

Data Collection

We used the exact measures and questions from the official assessment onto an online form, allowing participants to be completely anonymous. The anonymous surveys were conducted from August 2020 to September 2020 by sending the online form to social media groups dominated by South Asians and a random pool of subjects voluntarily responded to it. The subjects were randomly spread across the US, Canada and India (12 respondents were from US, 18 from Canada, 10 were from India.). The subject age group were adults 18 and older. Due to the sensitive nature of this survey, the privacy of the subjects has been strictly enforced, hence no attempt has been made to correlate subjects with underlying health problems or genetic history. However, none of the subjects had prior diagnosis or awareness of PTSD. We assigned the 40 subjects patient numbers and diagnosed each one. We did this by adding together their given responses from a range of 1-4 to 20 questions. From there, we found the percentage of subjects with mild, moderate, severe, and very severe PTSD.