title: [Postraumatic mental disorders in traders victims of crime].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Crime consequences are not only a security problem; they are also a community health question. Because shop assistants are particularly exposed to crime victimization, they are at risk from suffering posttraumatic stress disorders.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe posttraumatic symptomatology of crime victimized shop assistants and to explore the relationship between the symptoms and demographic, victim and situational factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Self-reported information about mental symptomatology was gathered from 126 victimized shop assistants identified during cross-sectional study. Case and control groups were formed to explore association between symptomatology and crime and victim characteristics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 20.6% of respondents reported information compatible with posttraumatic stress disorder; the 13 %, with moderate/severe depression and the 69.8% with adjustment disorder. The condition of being a case was associated with the violent characteristic of the crime, with the subtraction of goods and the economic value of the goods.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
authors.forename: Julián
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Achilli
authors.forename: María C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: Jorge O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Folino