Table 1.

Participant characteristics: telephone interview sample compared with clinical interview sub‐sample

	Telephone interview		Clinical interview		P‐Valueb
	N = 2616		N = 500
Variablea	n	%	n	%
Sex
Men	2228	85.2	440	88.0	0.10
Women	388	14.8	60	12.0
Age, years
17–24c	878	33.6	160	32.0	0.14
25–34	848	32.5	182	36.4
35–44	634	24.3	103	20.6
≥45	250	9.6	55	11.0
Race
White	2295	87.8	444	88.8	0.73
Black	195	7.5	35	7.0
Other	123	4.7	20	4.0
Income
≤ $60,000	1498	59.1	279	55.8
> $60,001	1038	40.9	205	38.0
Education
High school graduate/GED or less	727	27.8	137	27.4	0.94
Some college or technical training	1234	47.2	240	48.0
College/graduate degree	655	25.0	123	24.6
Marital status
Married	1227	47.0	238	47.6	0.71
Divorced/separated/widowed	252	9.6	53	10.6
Never married	1134	43.4	209	41.8
Rank
Officer	342	13.1	56	11.2	0.25
Enlisted/cadet/civilian employee	2273	86.9	444	88.8
Most recent deployment location
Never deployed	939	36.1	173	34.6	0.66
Non‐conflict area	872	33.5	178	35.6
Conflict area	793	30.5	146	29.2
Number of lifetime deployments
0–1	1756	67.4	323	64.6	0.49
2–3	682	26.2	143	28.6
≥ 4	169	6.5	30	6.0
Total number of traumatic events experienced
0	141	5.4	23	4.6	0.65
1–5	887	33.9	159	31.8
6–11	831	31.8	166	33.2
≥12	757	28.9	152	30.4

^aSome percentages do not equal 100% because of missing values.

^bChi‐square tests.

^cEmancipated minors as defined by Ohio state law were eligible.