Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics of war veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who were not taking antidepressant therapy and those who were
| PTSD patients |
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|---|---|---|---|
| without antidepressants (n = 49) | with antidepressants (n = 52) | P | |
| Age (mean±standard deviation) | 40.9 ± 7.0 | 42.9 ± 6.9 | 0.165* |
| Education (n, %): | 0.926† | ||
| primary or high school | 44 (89.8) | 48 (92.3) | |
| college, university or still studying | 5 (10.2) | 4 (7.7) | |
| Marital status (n, %): | 0.238† | ||
| Single | 13 (26.5) | 7 (13.5) | |
| married | 35 (71.4) | 43 (82.7) | |
| divorced | 1 (2.0) | 2 (3.8) | |
| widower | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Economic status (n, %): | <0.001† | ||
| considerably or somewhat worse than most other people | 15 (30.6) | 19 (36.5) | |
| neither better nor worse than most other people | 30 (61.2) | 30 (57.7) | |
| considerably or somewhat better than most other people | 4 (8.2) | 3 (5.8) | |
*Independent samples t test.
†χ2 test.