Table 1.

Characteristics of Participants by Current PTSD Status (N=245)

Measure	No current PTSD (n=199)	Current PTSD (n=46)	P value
Age, mean (sd) in years	46.0 (11.86)	43.70 (10.98)	0.252
Sex, No. (%)			0.243
Men	79 (39.7%)	14 (30.4%)
Women	120 (60.3%)	32 (69.6%)
Race, No. (%)			0.890
African American	174 (88.8%)	40 (90.9%)
Caucasian	15 (7.7%)	3 (6.8%)
Other	7 (3.6%)	1 (2.3%)
Marital Status, No. (%)			0.170
Not Married	175 (89.3%)	36 (81.8%)
Married	21 (10.7%)	8 (18.2%)
Education, No. (%)			0.414
Less than HS	41 (20.9%)	11 (25.0%)
GED or HS Grad	79 (40.3%)	13 (29.5%)
≥ Some College	76 (38.8%)	20 (45.5%)
Employment, No. (%)			0.651
Unemployed	100 (51.0%)	25 (56.8%)
Disabled	53 (27.0%)	12 (27.3%)
Employed	43 (21.9%)	7 (15.9%)
Monthly Income, No (%), $			0.238
Less than $250	59 (30.7%)	16 (38.1%)
$250-$499	23 (12.0%)	2 (4.8%)
$500-$999	56 (29.2%)	16 (38.1%)
$1000 or more	54 (28.1%)	8 (19.0%)
Cigarette Smoking, No. (%)			0.385
Never Smoked	49 (25.8%)	13 (32.5%)
Lifetime Hx Smoking	141 (74.2%)	27 (67.5%)
Current Substance Abuse, No. (%)			0.244
No Current Substance Abuse	184 (95.3%)	40 (90.9%)
Current Substance Abuse	9 (4.7%)	4 (9.1%)
Currently on Antipsychotics, No. (%)	17 (8.5%)	5 (10.9%)	0.619
Time of Trauma, No. (%)			0.064
None	26 (14.2%)	0 (0%)
Adult Only	71 (38.8%)	17 (42.5%)
Childhood Only	30 (16.4%)	6 (15.0%)
Child and Adult	56 (30.6%)	16 (42.5%)
Amount of Trauma, No. (%)			0.092
Not Experienced (but witnessed)	19 (10.3%)	2 (4.7%)
1 type of trauma	20 (10.8%)	1 (2.3%)
2 or more types of trauma	146 (78.9%)	40 (93%)
Current MDD, No. (%)			<0.001
No Current MDD	176 (93.6%)	24 (57.1%)
Current MDD	12 (6.4%)	18 (42.9%)

Note, N's range from 223-245 due to occasional missing demographic data; All except for age (which was examined with ANOVA) are examined with chi-squared statistics.