Table 1.
Panic attack group (No History of Panic Attack, Pre-Typhoon Panic Attack, Post-Typhoon Panic Attack) comparisons on premorbid factors.
| Premorbid factors |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | d.f. | χ 2 | p | Mean (S.D.) or % | |
| Sex (% female) | 2.35 | 0.31 | |||
| No Panic | 54.8% | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 62.2% | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 63.6% | ||||
| Age (Years) | 16.33 | 774 | < 0.001 | ||
| No Panic | 40.2 (15.4)a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 50.5 (20.0)a,b | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 39.9 (16.6)b | ||||
| Education level§ | 17.83 | 765 | < 0.001 | ||
| No Panic | 2.8 (1.4)a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 1.9 (1.2)a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 2.2 (1.1) | ||||
| Employment status (% Employed) | 3.49 | 0.18 | |||
| No Panic | 86.7% | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 92.2% | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 95.5% | ||||
| Marital status (% married) | 2.63 | 0.27 | |||
| No Panic | 70.4% | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 62.2% | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 72.7% | ||||
| Religious affiliation (% with affiliation) | 11.22 | < 0.01 | |||
| No Panic | 25.6%a,b | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 13.3%a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 4.5%b | ||||
| Pre-typhoon SRQ-20 (% positive screen) | 24.12 | < 0.001 | |||
| No Panic | 17.3%a,b | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 37.8%a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 36.4%b | ||||
| PTE exposure (% with PTE history) | 55.29 | < 0.001 | |||
| No Panic | 40.6%a,b | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 81.1%a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 63.6%b | ||||
| Severity of typhoon exposure | 15.15 | 773 | < 0.001 | ||
| No Panic | 3.1 (1.3)a,b | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 3.7 (1.2)a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 4.0 (1.4)b | ||||
| Peri-traumatic fear (% with moderate to severe fear) | 23.45 | < 0.001 | |||
| No Panic | 60.4%a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon | 85.6%a | ||||
| Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon | 77.3% | ||||
Note: “No Panic”=no lifetime history of panic attacks, “Panic Attack Onset Pre-Typhoon”=lifetime history of panic attacks with onset occurring prior to exposure to the typhoon, “Panic Attack Onset Post-Typhoon”=onset of panic attacks post-typhoon with no history of panic pre-typhoon.
Alpha superscripts denote statistically significant post-hoc group contrasts at p < 0.05. The a and b superscripts indicate statistically significant differences.
§
Higher values reflect higher levels of achieved educational attainment.