ArticlePloS one2017
When do traumatic experiences alter risk-taking behavior? A machine learning analysis of reports from refugees.
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- AI-Based Approaches to Refugee Mental Health Care: Systematic Integrative Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on the Mental and Physical Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities: A Comprehensive Review of Quantitative Research.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Substance and Behavioural Addictions Among Evacuees: Findings From Israeli Swords of Iron War.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Article
- Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Measure Impulsivity among Trauma-Exposed Adults.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2025Article
- Machine learning applications in studying mental health among immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities: an exploratory scoping review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
- Utilization of machine learning to test the impact of cognitive processing and emotion recognition on the development of PTSD following trauma exposure.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Trajectories of posttraumatic stress symptoms during and after Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) in refugees.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Diagnosing Mental Illness.Psychiatry investigation · 2019Article
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Abstract
Exposure to traumatic stressors and subsequent trauma-related mental changes may alter a person's risk-taking behavior. It is unclear whether this relationship depends on the specific types of traumatic experiences. Moreover, the association has never been tested in displaced individuals with substantial levels of traumatic experiences. The present study assessed risk-taking behavior in 56 displaced individuals by means of the balloon analogue risk task (BART). Exposure to traumatic events, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression were assessed by means of semi-structured interviews. Using a novel statistical approach (stochastic gradient boosting machines), we analyzed predictors of risk-taking behavior. Exposure to organized violence was associated with less risk-taking, as indicated by fewer adjusted pumps in the BART, as was the reported experience of physical abuse and neglect, emotional abuse, and peer violence in childhood. However, civil traumatic stressors, as well as other events during childhood were associated with lower risk taking. This suggests that the association between global risk-taking behavior and exposure to traumatic stress depends on the particular type of the stressors that have been experienced.
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