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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Psychol. 2019 Dec 24;48(4):1273–1293. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22306

Table A1.

Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics of samples in prior trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy randomized controlled trials

Study Sociodemographic characteristics reported N Country Race & Ethnicity (n/%) Socioeconomic Status (SES)
(Deblinger, Lippmann, & Steer, 1996) Race/ethnicity 90 USA Caucasian = 72%
African American = 20%
Hispanic = 6%
Other = 2%
(Cohen & Mannarino, 1996) Race and Hollingshead Index of Socioeconomic Status, Parental occupation onlya 67 USA Caucasian = 54%
African-American = 42%
Other = 4%
Mean Hollingshead = IV (out of 9)
(Cohen & Mannarino, 1998) Race/ethnicity and Hollingshead Index of Socioeconomic Statusa 49 USA Caucasian = 59
African American = 37
Hispanic = 2
Biracial = 2
Hollingshead Index:
Range = 22-69
Mean = 46.77
(King et al., 2000) Parental occupationb 36 Australia Australian Index of Occupation:
Mean = 6.08/9
(Deblinger, Stauffer, & Steer, 2001) Race/ethnicity and total annual household income 44 USA White = 28 (64%)
Black = 9 (21%)
Hispanic = 1 (2%)
Other = 6 (14%)
Total annual household income:
> $20,000 = 24 (55%)
=< $20,000 = 20 (45%)
(Cohen, Deblinger, Mannarino, & Steer, 2004) Race/ethnicity and family annual income 203 USA Caucasian = 122 (60%)
African American = 56 (28%)
Hispanic American = 9 (4%)
Biracial = 14 (7%)
Other = 2 (1%)
Family annual income:
< $25,000 = 99 (52%)
> 25,000 = 90 (48%)
(Cohen, Mannarino, Perel, & Staron, 2007) Race 22 USA White = 17 (77.3%)
African American = 5 (22.7%)
(Jaycox et al., 2010) Race and participation in free/reduced lunch program (in three schools)c Total N = 1,215

School 1, n = 158

School 2, n = 796

School 3, n = 261
USA School 1 African American = 74%

School 2, Caucasian = 90%

School 3 African American = 97%
School 1 = 75%
School 2 = 11%
School 3 = 80%
(Cohen, Mannarino, & Iyengar, 2011)
Race 124 USA White = 69 (55.6%)
Black = 41 (33.1%)
Biracial = 14 (11.3%)
(Deblinger, Mannarino, Cohen, Runyon, & Steer, 2011) Race/ethnicity and parental employment status 179 USA Caucasian = 65%
African American = 14%
Hispanic = 7%
Other = 14%
Parent employed either full-or part-time = 60%
(O’Callaghan et al., 2013) Not reported 52 Democratic Republic of Congo
(McMullen, O’callaghan, Shannon, Black, & Eakin, 2013) Not reported 50 Democratic Republic of Congo
(Dorsey et al., 2014) Race 47 USA Multiracial = 25 (53.2%)
Caucasian = 11 (23.4%)
African American = 9 (19.1%)
Native American = 1 (2.1%)
Asian = 1 (2.1%)
(Jensen et al., 2014) Race/ethnicity and mean annual household income in U.S. Dollarsd 156 Norway Norwegian = 115 (73.7%)
Asian = 17 (10.9%)
One parent Norwegian = 13 (8.3)
Western European countries = 2 (1.3%)
Eastern European countries = 2 (1.3%)
African countries = 3 (1.9%)
South/Central American countries = 2 (1.3%)
Nordic countries = 1 (0.6%)
Other = 1 (0.6%)
Mean annual household income in USD:
<$35,000 = 20 (15.6%)
[$35,000, $87,000) = 49 (38.3%)
[$87,000, $174,000) = 38 (29.7%)
≥ $174,000 = 9 (7.0%)
Do not know = 12 (9.4%)
(O’Donnell et al., 2014) No Race/ethnicity or SES Available 64 Tanzania
(Webb, Hayes, Grasso, Laurenceau, & Deblinger, 2014) Race/ethnicity and median annual household income 72 USA White = 46% African-American = 40%
Hispanic/Latino = 10%
Biracial = 4%
Median annual household income = $37,085
(Diehle, Opmeer, Boer, Mannarino, & Lindauer, 2015) Ethnicity 48 The Netherlands Dutch ethnicity = 73 (77%)
(Murray et al., 2015) Ethnicity 257 Zambia Ngoni = 55
Bemba = 81
Other = 119
(Cohen et al., 2016) Race/ethnicity 81 USA Caucasian = 48
Black = 6
American Indian = 4
Pacific Islander = 3
Asian = 1
Unreported = 27
Hispanic/Latino= 7
(Goldbeck, Muche, Sachser, Tutus, & Rosner, 2016) Country of birth and parental education 159 Germany Country of birth:
German native = 143 (89.9)
Non-German native = 11 (6.9)
Missing information = 5 (3.1)
Parental education:
< 9 years’ schooling = 4 (2.5%)
9-11 years’ schooling = 82 (51.6%)
>= 12 years’ schooling = 39 (24.5%)
Missing information = 34 (21.4%)
(Salloum et al., 2016)


Race/ethnicity, household income and parent employment status 53 USA Ethnicity:
Hispanic/Latino = 24
Not Hispanic = 29

Race:
American Indian/Alaskan Native = 1
African American = 14
White = 34
Mixed Race = 4
Household income:
$0-9,999 = 12
$10,000 -24,999 = 14
$25,000-34,999 = 12
$35,000 – 49,999 = 4
$50,000+ = 11

Parent/Guardian employed = 32
(Salloum et al., 2017) Race/ethnicity and parent household income 33 USA Ethnicity:
Hispanic/Latino = 9 (27.3)
Not Hispanic/Latino = 24 (72.7)

Race:
African American = 7 (21.2)
White = 26 (78.8)
Parental household income:
$0-$9,999 = 8 (24.2%)
$10,000 - $24,999 = 5 (15.2%)
$25,000 - $34,999 = 4 (12.1%)
$35,000 - $49,999 = 6 (18.2%)
$50,000 and above = 10 (30.3%)
(Love & Fox, 2019) Race/ethnicity and parental Educatione 32 USA African American: 31.3%
Multiracial: 34.4%
Latina/o: 21.9%
European American: 12.5%
Mother finished 12th grade: 84.0%
Father finished 12th grade: 76.5%

Note. Studies were only included if they were the main/first publication of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the efficacy or effectiveness of TF-CBT. We did not include follow-up studies of the same RCT.

a

Socioeconomic rating from (Hollingshead, 1975). Raw scores range from 8 to 66, with higher scores reflecting higher SES. Range listed by article may be a typo. Parental occupation index classifies jobs along a spectrum from I-IX, with jobs increasing in income and prestige.

b

Socioeconomic rating derived from (Castles, 1990).

c

Those with incomes between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced-price meals.

d

Mean household income in Norway for 2010 was $75,000 USD.

e

Families explicitly recruited based on the fact that family received public assistance, indicating that the household income was below the federal poverty level.