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. 2015 May 18;6:10.3402/ejpt.v6.27070. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v6.27070

Table 5.

Socio-demographic and trauma-related characteristics and indicators of clinical severity of participants meeting DSM-IV and ICD-11 criteria for PTSD in the Colombian sample

Total DSM-IV (n=249) Total ICD-11 (n=201) DSM-IV only (n=57) ICD-11 only (n=9)




Categorical variables N % n % n % n %
Gender (Female) 157 63.1 125 62.2 37 64.9 5 62.8
Continuous variables M SD M SD M SD M SD

Age 48.24 12.63 47.29 12.54 51.18 11.84 45.44 6.50
Number of traumatic experiences 10.60 3.57 10.62 3.72 10.47 3.19 10.22 4.76
Symptom severity 0.64 0.65 0.76 0.64 0.18 0.41 0.18 0.41
Suicidality 1.49 0.88 1.57 0.93 1.19 0.58 1.44 0.88

PTSD=posttraumatic stress disorder; total DSM-IV=participants meeting diagnostic criteria for PTSD under DSM-IV; total ICD-11=participants meeting diagnostic criteria for PTSD under the proposed ICD-11 classification; DSM-IV only=participants meeting PTSD criteria only under DSM-IV; ICD-11 only=participants meeting PTSD criteria only under ICD-11. The symptom severity score were standardized. The suicidality scores were based on a scale from 1=not at all to 4=extremely. The symptom severity scores were standardized based on the 17 symptoms of the DSM-IV for the DSM-IV total and the DSM-IV-only groups. For the ICD-11 total and ICD-only group, they were standardized based on the six symptoms of the ICD-11 proposal.