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Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Nov 1;18(11):1156–1160. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01206.x

Table 3.

Differences in PTSD Symptom Severity Scores and Age Across Ethnicity, Trauma Type, Employment Status, Marital Status, and Sex

Traits	PCLC scores			Age
Traits	Median	IQR	Z	Median	IQR	Z
Ethnicity			−5.92^*			−6.93^*
White	26.0	21.0–35.0		44.0	29.0–56.75
Non-white	34.0	25.0–54.0		30.5	23.0–43.25
Trauma type			−6.42^*			−8.58^*
Assaultive	36.0	26.0–55.0		26.0	23.0–36.0
Non-assaultive	27.0	21.0–36.0		44.0	30.0–56.0
Employment			−4.28^*			−1.96^{^}
Employed/retired/student	26.0	21.0–34.5		42.0	27.5–55.0
Unemployed	33.0	25.0–50.25		38.0	26.0–50.0
Marital status			−3.45^*			−8.94^*
Married	25.0	21.0–33.0		50.0	40.0–60.0
Single	30.0	23.0–41.0		32.0	23.25–47.75
Sex			0.90			3.31^*
Male	28.0	22.0–39.0		37.0	24.0–51.0
Female	29.0	22.0–41.0		42.5	30.25–55.0

^*

p < 0.01;

^{^}

p < 0.05

PCLC = PTSD Checklist, Civilian

Z scores were utilized for nonparametric statistics with a Mann-Whitney correction; Single = single/divorced/separated/widowed