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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Stimul. 2020 Jul 10;13(5):1333–1348. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2020.07.002

Table 1.

Participant Demographics for the active non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation (nVNS) and sham groups.

Measure nVNS (n = 11) Sham (n = 8) p value

Age (y) 28.7 ± 8.4 25.3 ± 3.4 0.90
Sex 4 F, 7 M 5 F, 3 M 0.37
BMI (kg·m−2), 26.2 ± 5.7 28.5 ± 5.3 0.38
PTSD Checklist Score 29.3 ± 9.5 29.4 ± 10.3 0.65
Early Trauma Inventory 11.0 ± 7.1 8.8 ± 6.9 0.53
Adulthood Trauma Inventory 4.1 ± 1.6 3.5 ± 2.9 0.68
Race/Ethnicity 0.14
 White/Caucasian 5 (45.5%) 1 (12.5%)
 Black/African American 3 (27.3%) 2 (25.0%)
 Asian 1 (9.1%) 4 (50.0%)
 Multiracial 1 (12.5%)
 Other 2 (18.2%)
Marital Status 1.0
 Never Married 8 (72.7%) 7 (87.5%)
 Married/Civil Partnership 2 (18.2%) 1 (14.3%)
 Divorced/Separated 1 (9.1%)