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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Stress. 2012 Jul 17;25(4):359–367. doi: 10.1002/jts.21723

Table 2.

Demographics of the Trauma-Exposed and Control Groups

Trauma-exposed
Single event Multiple
events
Hurricane Control
n = 62 n = 85 n = 137 n = 46
Variable M or
n
SD or
%
M or
n
SD or
%
M or
n
SD or
%
M or
n
SD
or %
Age 5.2 1.1 5.1 1.1 5.1 1.0 4.7 1.0
Sex: males 42 68 55 65 78 57 29 63
Ethnicity
 African-American 51 82 53 62 85 62 38 83
 Caucasian 7 11 15 18 39 28 3 7
 Mixed Race 3 5 13 15 8 6 3 7
 Other Race 1 2 4 5 5 4 2 4
Age of mother 28.9 6.5 31.2 8.2 34.5 10.9 28.6 6.5
Age of father 30.4 5.4 33.6 7.2 34.1 8.8 31.0 9.1
Years education of mother 12.4 2.3 12.0 2.3 13.7 2.5 12.2 1.9
Years education of father 11.9 2.3 11.7 1.9 13.0 2.7 12.0 1.9
Father lives in home 14 23 6 7 46 34 17 37
Mother employed 37 60 24 28 69 50 24 52
Duration first trauma to
assessment*
14.1 36.5 21.6
Duration last trauma to
assessment*
3.6 18.9 16.8
*

Medians