Table 3.
Differences in symptoms of neurosis measured with Cornell Index among women aged over 16 years living in Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina who experienced no domestic violence and victims of domestic violence*
| Symptom of neurosis (median, 25-75 percentile) in women who |
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| experienced no domestic violence |
experienced domestic violence |
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| Symptoms of neurosis | domicile (n = 53) | refugees (n = 5) | patients (n = 10) | total (n = 68) | domicile (n = 76) | refugees (n = 45) | patients (n = 94) | total (n = 215) | P† |
| General level of neurosis | 18.0‡ (13.0-25.0) | 25.0 (22.5-64.0) | 61.0§ (42.8-70.3) | 22.5 (16.0-43.7) | 43.0‡ (25.3-62.3) | 50.0 (26.5-70.0) | 78.0§ (66.0-86.0) | 63.0 (38.0-80.0) | <0.001 |
| Anxiety | 36.0‡ (18.0-54.0) | 63.0 (27.0-94.5) | 95.0 (73.0-86.0) | 45.0 (27.0-72.8) | 64.0‡ (36.0-73.0) | 73.0 (45.0-95.0) | 91.0 (73.0-99.0) | 81.0 (54.0-91.0) | <0.001 |
| Phobia | 14.0‡ (0.0-36.0) | 28.0 (7.0-85.0) | 64.0§ (14.0-86.0) | 14.0 (0.0-57.0) | 57.0‡ (29.0-86.0) | 57.0 (21.0-85.0) | 99.0§ (86.0-99.0) | 85.0 (43.0-99.0) | <0.001 |
| Hypersensitivity | 17.0‡ (4.0-28.5) | 33.0 (16.0-49.5) | 58.0§ (41.8-77.0) | 20.5 (8.0-41.8) | 46.0‡ (17.0-67.0) | 42.0 (20.0-74.0) | 83.0§ (75.0-92.0) | 67.0 (33.0-85.0) | <0.001 |
| Depression | 0.0‡ (0.0-29.0) | 14.0 (0.0-92.0) | 92.5 (32.3-99.0) | 0.0 (0.0-53.5) | 50.0‡ (0.0-86.0) | 85.0 (14.0-99.0) | 99.0 (86.0-99.0) | 86.0 (38.8-99.0) | <0.001 |
| Cardio-vascular conversion | 0.0‡ (0.0-18.0) | 0.0 (0.0-90.0) | 81.0 (58.0-90.0) | 0.0 (0.0-54.0) | 54.0‡ (18.0-90.0) | 18.0 (0.0-90.0) | 90.0 (72.0-99.0) | 72.0 (31.5-90.0) | <0.001 |
| Inhibitory conversion | 12.0 (0.0-12.0) | 0.0 (0.0-18.0) | 43.0§ (33.3-55.0) | 12.0 (0.0-25.0) | 12.0 (12.0-37.0) | 24.0 (0.0-42.5) | 62.0§ (43.0-74.0) | 37.0 (12.0-62.0) | <0.001 |
| Gastro-intestinal conversion | 0.0‡ (0.0-13.5) | 36.0 (13.5-54.0) | 27.0§ (13.5-52.0) | 9.0 (0.0-27.0) | 18.0‡ (0.0-45.0) | 9.0 (0.0-54.0) | 63.5§ (36.0-77.0) | 36.0 (0.0-64.0) | <0.001 |
| Hypochondria | 8.0‡ (0.0-31.0) | 23.0 (7.5-57.0) | 72.5§ (34.3-77.0) | 15.0 (0.0-38.0) | 54.0‡ (15.0-77.0) | 23.0 (7.0-84.0) | 92.0§ (77.0-99.0) | 76.0 (31.0-92.0) | <0.001 |
| Obsessive-compulsive tendencies | 17.0‡ (0.0-33.0) | 66.0 (24.5-66.0) | 75.0 (29.0-87.0) | 17.0 (16.0-45.8) | 50.0‡ (17.0-67.0) | 66.0 (33.0-83.0) | 83.0 (67.0-99.0) | 67.0 (33.0-83.0) | <0.001 |
| Impulsive-aggressive tendencies | 33.0‡ (33.0-45.5) | 49.0 (41.0-57.5) | 62.0 (50.0-69.0) | 42.0 (33.0-50.0) | 50.0‡ (34.0) | 58.0 (41.0-66.0) | 74.0 (58.0-83.0) | 58.0 (42.0-75.0) | <0.001 |
| Paranoid tendencies | 21.0‡ (10.0-29.5) | 42.0 (41.5-63.50 | 36.0§ (23.5-41.0) | 21.0 (10.0-31.0) | 31.0‡ (21.0-41.03) | 57.0 (36.0-71.0) | 51.0§ (31.0-62.0) | 41.0 (28.0-57.0) | <0.001 |
*Cornell Index (26). Participants were divided into 3 subgroups domicile women (n = 129), refugee women (n = 50), and psychiatric patients (n = 104).
†Kruskal-Wallis test.
‡P≤0.05 for domicile women victims of domestic violence vs domicile women who experienced no domestic violence (Mann-Whitney U test).
§P≤0.05 for female patients, victims of domestic violence vs female patients experienced no domestic violence (Mann-Whitney U test).