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Table 3 Frequency of stressors

From: Severity, symptomatology, and treatment duration for mental health disorders: a retrospective analysis from a conflict-affected region of northern Nigeria

Stressor

Male

Female

p Value

Children ≤ 15 years

Adults

p Value

Total

Patient or relative with a severe medical condition*

1136 (19.6%)

3839 (20.6%)

0.047

426 (11.1%)

4549 (22%)

 < 0.001

4975 (20.3%)

Sexual violence (inside and outside the family)

826 (14.2%)

3473 (18.6%)

 < 0.001

857 (22.4%)

3442 (16.7%)

 < 0.001

4299 (17.6%)

Other stressors**

1430 (24.6%)

2696 (14.4%)

 < 0.001

1013 (26.5%)

3113 (15.1%)

 < 0.001

4126 (16.9%)

Family member killed or forced disappeared***

790 (13.6%)

2990 (16%)

0.016

563 (14.7%)

3217 (15.6%)

 < 0.001

3780 (15.4%)

Property destroyed or lost

690 (11.9%)

1989 (10.7%)

 < 0.001

221 (5.8%)

2458 (11.9%)

 < 0.001

2679 (10.9%)

Forced to flee or IDP

440 (7.6%)

1636 (8.8%)

0.1399

329 (8.6%)

1747 (8.5%)

 < 0.001

2076 (8.5%)

Other violent events****

318 (5.5%)

1319 (7.1%)

0.003

259 (6.8%)

1378 (6.7%)

 < 0.001

1637 (6.7%)

Having a family member arrested

78 (1.3%)

373 (2%)

0.006

74 (1.9%)

377 (1.8%)

 < 0.001

451 (1.8%)

Kidnapping

22 (0.4%)

207 (1.1%)

 < 0.001

32 (0.8%)

197 (1%)

 < 0.001

229 (0.9%)

History of psychiatric disorders

80 (1.4%)

148 (0.8%)

 < 0.001

48 (1.2%)

180 (0.9%)

 < 0.001

228 (0.9%)

  1. Information missing for 59 patients. *Includes severe medical conditions, family member medical illness, and highly stigmatized diseases stressors. **Includes other stressors, family member died, loss of family income, accidents, unaccompanied minor, and children caretakers neglected stressors. ***Includes family member forced disappeared, and family member(s) killed stressors. ****Includes forced recruitment by armed groups, receive threats, combat experience, incarceration, other physical violence, and torture stressors. p Values are obtained from chi-squared test