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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2019 Nov 11;282:112640. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.112640

Table 1:

Demographic, prior lifetime history of mental disorders, earthquake-related variables and triallelic and biallelic genotypes frequencies of Study participants by 12-month Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) status.

Variables No 12 PTSD 12m PTSD p-value #
N (%) N (%)
Sex
Male 154 (47.5) 4 (23.5)
Female 170 (52.5) 13 (76.5) 0.053
Age (Mean, SD) 47.22 (16.332) 48.00 (14.794) 0.85
Ethnicity
White/Caucasic 293 (90.4) 12 (70.6)
Not white/caucasic 31 (9.6) 5 (29.4) 0.02&
Marital status
Living with a partner 244 (75.3) 12 (70.6)
Not living with a partner 80 (24.7) 5 (29.4) 0.66
Education
Secondary or higher 123 (38.0) 3 (17.6)
Primary or lower 201 (62.0) 14 (82.4) 0.09
Employment
Working 172 (53.1) 4 (23.5)
Not working 152 (46.9) 13 (76.54) 0.02
Any prior lifetime PTSD 4 (1.2) 8 (47.1) < 0.005
Number of any prior lifetime other anxiety disorders (Mean, SD) 0.10 (0.350) 0.53 (0.800) 0.04
Number of Any prior lifetime mood disorder (Mean, SD) 0.12 (0.341) 0.47 (0.514) 0.01
Number of any prior substance disorder (Mean, SD) 0.05 (0.274) 0.18 (0.529) 0.33
Number of any prior lifetime mental disorders (Mean, SD) 0.27 (0.677) 1.18 (1.334) 0.01
High Earthquake Exposure (HEE) 154 (59.5) 13 (81.2) 0.01
High Emotional Impact (HEI) 189 (57.1) 14 (87.5) 0.02
Triallelic classification
S’S’ 108 (33.3) 5 (29.4)
S’L’ 154 (47.5) 7 (41.2)
L’L’ 62 (19.1) 5 (29.4) 0.58
Biallelic classification
SS 96 (29.6) 5 (29.4)
SL 160 (49.4) 7 (41.2)
LL 68 (21.0) 5 (29.4) 0.68
#

Chi-squared or Student-T test for categoric or continuous mesures respectivelly.

±

Include: student, homemaker, retired/disabled, unemployed and others diferent from working.

High Earthquake Exposure (HEE): defined as those with an exposure score above the mean rate of the total sample;

High Emòtional Impact (HEI): defined as those with an Emotional impact above the mean rate of the total sample;

&

Fisher’s exact test