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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Trauma. 2020 May 14;12(6):659–668. doi: 10.1037/tra0000588

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics

Overall
(n = 1609)
PTSD
(n = 406)
Non-PTSD
(n = 1203)
Mean (SD); %; Median Mean (SD); %; Median Mean (SD); %; Median Sig.
Sex 59% Female 63.1% Female 58.6% Female p = .11
Age 37.2 (11.9); Range 18–80 34.16 (12.3); Range 18–80 38.28 (10.2); Range 19–73 p < .001
Education 15.2 (2.5) 14.9 (2.8) 15.4 (2.3) p < .001
Ethnicity p = .58
Caucasian 72.8% 70.9% 73.4%
Black 6.3% 7.6% 5.8%
Asian 7.8% 8.6% 7.5%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander 7.0% 5.9% 7.3%
Hispanic / Latino 0.5% 0.5% 0.5%
Other 5.6% 6.5% 5.5%
Income
< $15,000 10.6% 17.7% 8.1% p < .001
$15–30,000 19% 20.4% 18.5%
$30–$45,000 17.8% 18% 17.8%
$45–$60,000 15.5% 16.5% 15.2%
$60–$75,000 11.2% 11.8% 11.1%
$75–$90,000 10.1% 7.6% 10.9%
> $90,000 15.8% 8% 18.4%
Depression (PHQ-9) 7.81 (6.27) 14.02 (6.32) 5.72 (4.67) p < .001
Anxiety (GAD-7) 7.25 (5.80) 13.03 (5.1) 5.30 (4.57) p < .001
Alcohol Use (AUDIT) 5.03 (5.77) 6.89 (7.52) 4.40 (4.89) p < .001
AUDIT 8+ 22.4% 33.3% 18.8% p < .001
Cannabis Use (CUDIT-R) 3.58 (5.89) 5.73 (7.60) 2.86 (4.98) p < .001
CUDIT-R 8+ 20.8% 32.8% 16.9% p < .001

Note. PHQ-9 = Patient Health Questionnaire; GAD-7 = Generalized Anxiety Disorder questionnaire; AUDIT = Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Hazardous use defined as AUDIT score of 8 or higher); CUDIT-R = Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test (Hazardous use defined as a CUDIT-R score of 8 or greater).