Table 1.

Frequency of exposure to different types of trauma for total sample and by gender and comparisons between genders

Event	Total(N = 80)	Females(n = 53)66.25%	Males(n = 27)33.75%	p-Value for male–female comparisons*
Military Sexual Trauma (MST)	73.75%	88.68%	44.44%	<0.0001
Disaster	52.50%	54.72%	48.15%	0.58
Fire or explosion	57.50%	56.60%	59.26%	0.82
Transportation accident	68.75%	73.58%	59.26%	0.19
Serious accident	48.75%	45.28%	55.56%	0.38
Exposure to toxic substance	50.00%	45.28%	59.26%	0.24
Physical assault	80.00%	84.91%	70.37%	0.12
Assault with a weapon	41.25%	37.74%	48.15%	0.37
Sexual assault not during military service	42.50%	50.94%	25.93%	0.03
Combat or exposure to a war	52.50%	41.51%	74.07%	0.006
Life threatening injury	30.00%	24.53%	40.74%	0.13
Sudden or violent death of someone close to you	47.50%	45.28%	51.85%	0.58
Sudden unexpected death of someone close to you	81.25%	79.25%	85.19%	0.52
Serious injury, harm or death you caused someone else	22.50%	20.75%	25.93%	0.60
Childhood sexual abuse	32.50%	37.74%	22.22%	0.16
Childhood physical abuse	41.25%	45.28%	33.33%	0.30
Neglect	23.75%	30.19%	11.11%	0.058
Total number of traumatic events, mean (SD)	8.46 (2.87)	8.62 (2.88)	8.15 (2.88)	0.49

*Chi-square test for each traumatic event and independent samples t-test for total number of traumatic events.