Table 1. Sample characteristics and comparison between type of exposure.
| Victims (N = 120) | First responders (N = 68) | Total (N = 188) |
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| N | % | N | % | N | % | p | |
| Male sex | 55 | 45.8% | 58 | 85.3% | 113 | 60.1% | < .001 |
| Age (median; min-max) | 25 | 20–56 | 34 | 24–57 | 18 | 20–57 | .007 |
| Years of study (median; min-max) | 14 | 2–24 | 13 | 6–19 | 13 | 1–24 | < .001 |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| White | 106 | 88.3% | 57 | 85.1% | 163 | 87.2% | .523 |
| Non-white | 14 | 11.7% | 10 | 14.9% | 24 | 12.8% | |
| Marital status | |||||||
| Single | 94 | 78.3% | 13 | 19.2% | 107 | 56.9% | < .001 |
| Married | 20 | 16.7% | 46 | 67.6% | 66 | 35.1% | |
| Divorced/widowed | 6 | 5.0% | 9 | 13.2% | 15 | 8.0% | |
| Occupation | |||||||
| Employed | 56 | 46.7% | 65 | 95.6% | 121 | 64.4% | < .001 |
| Unemployed | 18 | 15.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 18 | 9.6% | |
| Retired/sick leave | 7 | 5.8% | 3 | 4.4% | 10 | 5.3% | |
| Student | 39 | 32.5% | 0 | 0.0% | 39 | 20.7% | |
| Current psychiatric treatment | 69 | 57.5% | 16 | 23.9% | 85 | 45.5% | <0,001 |
| Type of treatment | |||||||
| No treatment | 58 | 48.3% | 52 | 77.6% | 110 | 58.8% | < .001 |
| Psychopharmaceutical only | 20 | 16.7% | 4 | 6.0% | 24 | 12.8% | |
| Psychoterapy only | 14 | 11.7% | 8 | 11.9% | 22 | 11.8% | |
| Psychopharmaceutical plus psychotherapy | 28 | 23.3% | 3 | 4.5% | 31 | 16.6% | |
P-values for Chi-square test (categorical) and Mann-Whitney test (continuous). There was one missing for ethnicity and two for marital status.