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Table 2 Odds Ratios and 95% CI Intervals for the Potential Trauma Events and Life Events in Predicting a PTSD-like State

From: Victimization and PTSD-like states in an Icelandic youth probability sample

  

95% CI for Exp (B)

Event

OR

Lower

Upper

1

Traffic accident

1.42

.50

4.08

2

Other serious accidents

.66

.14

3.11

3

Physical assault

3.65

.64

20.64

4

Rape

31.0*

1.14

845.20

5

Witnessed other people injured or killed

.44

.04

5.46

6

Came close to being injured or killed

.36

.05

2.46

7

Threats of violence

1.31

.78

2.18

8

Near-drowning

1.50

.53

4.25

9

Attempted suicide

2.69

.74

9.72

10

Robbery/theft

.56

.14

2.22

11

Pregnancy/abortion

.47

.01

26.72

12

Serious illness

.93

.07

13.02

13

Death of someone close

2.12

.85

5.28

14

Divorce

.42

.10

1.77

15

Sexual abuse

.31

.00

38.74

16

Physical abuse

.01

.00

9.12

17

Severe childhood neglect

.49

.01

19.19

18

Humiliation or persecution (bullying)

4.12*

1.54

11.04

19

Absence of a parent

11.79*

1.43

97.42

20

Miscellaneous

2.34

.62

9.53

  1. Note: * = p < .05