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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2004 Apr;61(4):403–410. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.61.4.403

Table 2.

Prevalence (%) of DSM-IV Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Sex and Race/Ethnicity a

% F Analysis df p
Males (N=531) 10.9
 Race/Ethnicity 2.26b 2, 521 0.106
  African American (N=247) 9.2
  Non-Hispanic White (N=107) 8.0
  Hispanic (N=177) 19.6
 Age 0.76 2, 521 0.466
  10–13 (N=156) 6.8
  14–15 (N=151) 11.8
  16+ (N=224) 11.0
Females (N=361) 14.7
 Race/Ethnicity 0.46c 2, 358 0.629
  African American (N=239) 14.7
  Non-Hispanic White (N=47) 10.5
  Hispanic (N=75) 16.9
 Age 0.84 2, 358 0.4337
  10–13 (N=33) 13.1
  14–15 (N=194) 12.8
  16+ (N=134) 17.9
Total (N=892) 11.2 1.19d 1, 880 0.275
a

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder could not be determined for four subjects due to missing data. One male and one female who self-identified as “other” race/ethnicity were excluded from the analyses; therefore the N for this table is 892. Each cell is weighted to reflect the population of the detention center. Because females make up only 7.3% of the detention center population, overall rates cannot be computed by averaging males’ and females’ rates. This is also true for race/ethnicity and age. To protect against Type I error, each group of tests is Bonferroni-adjusted beginning with the lowest alphas to the highest; for this reason, the probability of Type I error may not be a monotonic function of the F statistics. Tests of differences by race/ethnicity and age within sex were not calculated because cell sizes were too small.

b

Test of differences by race/ethnicity among males.

c

Test of differences by race/ethnicity among females.

d

Test of differences by sex.