Table 1.
Group means, standard deviations and differences of the demographic and clinical data for the PTSD and the Non-PTSD Group
|
PTSD |
Non-PTSD |
Statistics for group differences | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M/n (range) | SD/% | M/n | SD/% | |||
| Age (Years) |
36.74 |
9.67 |
31.88 |
6.83 |
t(49) = 1.85 |
p = .071 |
| Education (Years) |
5.59 |
5.46 |
18.68 |
3.46 |
t(46.05) = -10.41 |
p < .001 |
| Regions of Origin N% |
|
|
|
|
χ
2
(3, 51) = .11 |
p = .991 |
| Middle and Far East |
18 |
52.9% |
9 |
53% |
|
|
| The Balkans |
5 |
14.7% |
2 |
11.8% |
|
|
| Africa |
9 |
26.5% |
5 |
29.4% |
|
|
| India |
2 |
5.9% |
1 |
5.9% |
|
|
| Number of Traumatic Event Types (Self-experienced) |
5.47 |
2.35 |
1.24 |
1.40 |
t(47.41) = 8.05 |
p < .001 |
| (2-11) | ||||||
| Number of Traumatic Event Types (Witnessed) |
3.47 |
2.34 |
1.24 |
1.15 |
t(49.00) = 4.58 |
p < .001 |
| (0-9) | ||||||
| Time elapsed since the worst traumatic event (Years) |
9.74 |
8.82 |
7.45 |
4.80 |
t(32.11) = -1.09 |
p = .284 |
| PTSD Symptom Severity |
82.56 |
15.54 |
0.94 |
2.66 |
t(36.71) = 29.76 |
p < .001 |
| (55-113) | ||||||
| Hamilton-Depression Severity |
20.32 |
8.77 |
2.24 |
2.51 |
t(42.37) = 11.14 |
p < .001 |
| (6-37) | ||||||
| Shutdown Dissociation Score | 17.50 |
8.33 | 0.94 | 1.25 | t(35.88) = 11.34 | p < .001 |
| (2-33) | ||||||
Note. Mean (M), Standard Deviation (SD), absolute number of respondents (n), PTSD = Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. For group differences, t-tests were used for continuous variables and χ 2 tests were applied for nominal variables.