Table 3.
Distribution of Positive Responses to Trauma Items and Trauma Components Overall and Among Men and Women
| Trauma Item/Trauma Component | Overall N (%) |
Men N (%) |
Women N (%) |
P-Valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Natural disaster (flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, etc.) | 73 (22.2) | 40(19.1) | 32 (28.3) | 0.059 |
| 2. Fire or explosion | 39 (11.8) | 25 (11.9) | 13 (11.4) | 0.894 |
| 3. Transportation accident (car accident, boat accident, train wreck, plane crash, etc.) | 142 (43.4) | 89 (42.2) | 51 (46.8) | 0.431 |
| 4. Serious accident at work, home, or during recreational activity | 53 (16.0) | 31 (14.8) | 21 (18.3) | 0.411 |
| 5. Exposure to toxic substance (dangerous chemicals, radiation, etc.) | 17 (5.1) | 6 (2.9) | 11 (9.6) | 0.009 |
| 6. Physical assault (being attacked, hit, slapped, kicked, beaten up, etc.) | 92 (27.8) | 53 (25.2) | 34 (29.8) | 0.374 |
| 7. Assault with a weapon (being shot, stabbed, threatened with a knife, gun, bomb, etc.) | 55 (16.6) | 38 (18.1) | 17 (14.9) | 0.466 |
| 8. Sexual assault (rape, attempted rape, made to perform any type of sexual act through force or threat of harm) | 72 (21.7) | 35 (16.7) | 34 (29.6) | 0.007 |
| 9. Other unwanted or uncomfortable sexual experience | 64 (19.2) | 31 (14.7) | 30 (26.1) | 0.012 |
| 10. Combat or exposure to a war-zone (in the military or as a civilian) | 15 (4.5) | 11 (5.2) | 4 (3.5) | 0.470 |
| 11. Captivity (for example, being kidnapped, abducted, held hostage, prisoner of war) | 18(5.5) | 10 (8.9) | 8 (3.8) | 0.058 |
| 12. Life-threatening illness or injury | 113 (34.2) | 73 (34.9) | 39 (34.2) | 0.897 |
| 13. Severe human suffering | 24 (7.3) | 13 (6.2) | 10 (9.1) | 0.340 |
| 14. Sudden violent death (for example, homicide, suicide) | 22 (6.8) | 6 (2.9) | 15 (13.4) | <0.001 |
| 15. Sudden accidental death | 27 (8.2) | 15 (7.1) | 11 (9.7) | 0.428 |
| 16. Serious injury, harm, or death you caused to someone else | 18 (5.4) | 9 (4.3) | 8 (7.1) | 0.279 |
| 17. Any other very stressful event or experience | 74 (22.6) | 45 (21.5) | 28 (25.2) | 0.454 |
| Component 1: Extreme Violence/Death-related | 75 (43.6) | 44 (40.4) | 28 (48.3) | 0.326 |
| Component 2: Physical and Sexual Assault | 130 (57.3) | 74 (53.2) | 51 (63.0) | 0.160 |
| Component 3: Accidental/Disaster-related | 165 (63.0) | 102 (61.1) | 61 (67.0) | 0.343 |
Note: Yes vs. No for Items 1–17 means “Happened to me” vs. Did not happen to the individual. However, participants who endorsed “Yes” for items 14 and 15 suggest that they knew someone who experienced these events and/or witnessed these events.
a
P-values are based on the chi-square statistic.
Bolded p-values are statistically significant at p<0.05.