Table 3.
Number and proportion of children and caregivers exposed to each of eighteen potentially traumatic experiences related to the Marathon attack and subsequent manhunt
| Child | Caregiver | Caregiver and Child | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potentially Traumatic Experience | N | % of total sample (N=460) | N | % of total sample (N=460) | N | % of total sample (N=460) | % of children exposed whose caregiver shared exposure |
| Attended marathon | 71 | 15.4 | 87 | 18.9 | 57 | 12.4 | 80.3 |
| Injured in attack | 7 | 1.5 | 6 | 1.3 | 6 | 1.3 | 85.7 |
| Saw injured people | 19 | 4.1 | 35 | 7.6 | 17 | 3.7 | 89.5 |
| Saw dead bodies | 11 | 2.4 | 17 | 3.7 | 8 | 1.7 | 72.7 |
| Evacuated during attack | 28 | 6.1 | 37 | 8.0 | 22 | 4.8 | 78.6 |
| Knew person injured | 26 | 5.7 | 81 | 17.6 | 23 | 5.0 | 88.5 |
| Knew person killed | 12 | 2.6 | 23 | 5.0 | 11 | 2.4 | 91.7 |
| Under shelter-in-place warning | 238 | 51.7 | 238 | 51.7 | 238 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Saw heavier police presence in neighborhood | 161 | 35 | 215 | 46.6 | 152 | 33.0 | 94.4 |
| Saw uniformed service persons not typically found in civilian neighborhoods | 148 | 32.2 | 214 | 46.4 | 140 | 30.4 | 94.6 |
| Saw officers with guns drawn related to manhunt | 53 | 11.5 | 83 | 18.0 | 46 | 10.0 | 86.8 |
| Heard gunshots/explosions related to manhunt | 45 | 9.8 | 58 | 12.6 | 33 | 7.2 | 73.3 |
| Saw gunshots/explosions related to manhunt | 25 | 5.4 | 28 | 6.1 | 19 | 4.1 | 76.0 |
| Saw blood related to the manhunt | 16 | 3.5 | 15 | 3.3 | 9 | 2.0 | 56.3 |
| Had officer knock on door related to manhunt | 27 | 5.9 | 32 | 7.0 | 24 | 5.2 | 88.9 |
| Had officer enter and search home related to manhunt | 24 | 5.2 | 33 | 4.8 | 19 | 4.1 | 79.2 |
| Knew slain MIT officer | 10 | 2.2 | 27 | 5.9 | 8 | 1.7 | 80.0 |
| Knew injured transit officer | 10 | 2.2 | 18 | 3.9 | 7 | 1.5 | 70.0 |