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Table 1 Symptoms, traumatization category, sociodemographic items, and education levels of HE-PTSD and PTSD patients (significance set at <0.05)

From: Prognostic influence of witness/victim experiences and PTSD-specific symptoms on working and educational capacity: a comparison between two groups of individuals post-trauma

Parameters

HE-PTSD group ( n= 80)

PTSD group ( n= 40)

P value

Age [years]

76.2 ± 6.5

46.9 ± 10.4

<0.001

Sex [female/male]

47 (58.8%)/33 (41.3%)

14 (35.0%)/26 (65%)

0.020

Traumatization category

   

 Victim only

0

34

 

 Witness only

0

5

 

 Victim and witness

80

1

<0.001

Quality of intrusive memories

   

 Visual

52

38

 

 Acoustic

5

0

 

 Visual and acoustic

23

0

 

 Other (e.g., olfactory)

0

2

<0.001

Symptom intensity

   

 >2/day

47

31

 

 >2/week

26

8

 

 >2/month

7

1

0.039

School education level

   

 Basic primary school

37

31

 

 Secondary modern school

   

 Junior high school

33

5

 

 University-entrance diploma

10

4

0.002

Professional qualification

   

 Labor

40

36

 

 Mid-level administration

5

1

 

 Administration

35

3

<0.001

Years in job

   

 [Mean ± SD]

19.64 ± 19.57

23.83 ± 9.84

0.273