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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2015 Mar 15;50(8):1235–1242. doi: 10.1007/s00127-015-1046-x

Table 2.

Association between witnessing and other potentially traumatic events

Witnessing (%), n = 1084 No witnessing (%), n = 3171 χ2 p
PTEs (n obs = 4255)
 War events 205 (20.9) 222 (8.7) 65.8 < 0.0001
 Physical violence 565 (52.8) 932 (30.6) 159.6 < 0.0001
 Accidents 487 (45.9) 750 (25.4) 118.1 < 0.0001
 Sexual violence 108 (10.5) 186 (6.0) 14.2 0.0002
 Unexpected death 624 (57.2) 988 (31.2) 186.0 < 0.0001
 Events involving others 236 (20.7) 346 (11.0) 76.1 < 0.0001
 Other events 108 (9.9) 155 (4.9) 32.8 < 0.0001

Mean number of PTEs F P

Mean (SE) 2.78 (0.1) 1.38 (0.04) 1143.4 < 0.0001