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Table 2 Prevalences of symptom-defined posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI), by total and country of birth among participating resettled refugee minors in Sweden

From: Children at risk: A nation-wide, cross-sectional study examining post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden between 2014 and 2018

 

Symptom-defined PTSD prevalence

Total sample2

(n = 1057)

Syria

(n = 551)

Iraq

(n = 132)

Afghanistan

(n = 374)

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

Unweighted

42.0

(39.1–45.0)

33.6

(29.7–37.6)

37.1

(29.3–45.7)

56.1

(51.1–61.1)

Weighted3

42.0

(38.9–45.1)

33.4

(29.4–37.6)

36.8

(28.9–45.4)

56.9

(51.5–62.2)

Gender

 Boys

43.3

(39.3–47.4)

32.8

(27.4–38.8)

32.8

(22.5–45.1)

57.7

(51.4–63.9)

 Girls

40.5

(36.2–44.9)

34.3

(29.0–39.9)

41.5

(30.1–54.0)

53.3

(44.8–61.6)

Age

 16

38.7

(33.4–44.3)

30.1

(23.9–37.1)

42.2

(28.5–57.2)

57.0

(45.8–67.5)

 17

42.5

(37.5–47.7)

33.0

(26.9–39.8)

39.5

(25.1–55.9)

59.7

(50.6–68.1)

 18

44.2

(39.3–49.2)

38.3

(31.1–46.0)

30.6

(19.2–45.0)

53.4

(46.0–60.7)

 Total

        

Migratory status on arrival

 Accompanied

37.1

(33.7–40.6)

33.8

(29.7–38.1)

37.2

(29.0–46.2)

48.9

(40.4–57.4)

 Unaccompanied

53.7

(48.1–59.1)

31.7

(21.4–44.3)

a

 

60.2

(53.8–66.2)

Living situation

 With mother and/or father or relatives

37.2

(33.9–40.7)

a

 

a

 

53.0

(44.5–61.3)

 Family home or with unrelated adults

56.4

(46.9–65.4)

a

 

a

 

60.6

(50.4–70.0)

 HVB home

56.9

(47.4–65.9)

a

 

a

 

57.3

(47.5–66.5)

  1. 1 A PTSD case was defined as a total score ≥ 17 on the CRIES-8 questionnaire
  2. 2 There were 72 individuals with missing for the PTSD variable: 23 from Syria; 19 from Iraq; and 30 for Afghanistan
  3. 3 Prevalence for total sample was weighted using direct standardization – i.e. strata-specific sample prevalences were weighted according to the distribution of the source population across strata. There were six strata in total, defined by all possible combinations of gender and country of origin
  4. a Not calculated because there were less than 5 individuals in individual cells when PTSD was stratified by living situation