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Table 1 Sociodemographic, medical health, family and earthquake-related factors of children by proximity to disaster

From: Prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents one year after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake

  

Epicentre

Remainder earthquake zone

Unaffected areas

Total

p

  

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Gender

Females

80

50.0

106

49.5

743

51.0

929

50.7

-

Males

80

50.0

108

50.5

714

49.0

902

49.3

-

Age

3-5 yrs

48

30.0

63

29.3

467

31.9

578

31.5

-

6-10 yrs

73

45.6

98

45.6

608

41.6

779

42.4

-

11-14 yrs

39

24.4

54

25.1

388

26.5

481

26.2

-

Parents' high school diploma

Mother (N = 1703)

141

91.0

132

67.0

1011

74.8

1284

75.4

0.000

Father (N = 1611)

109

73.2

122

62.6

832

65.7

1063

66.0

0.106

Mother not married (N = 1781)

 

7

4.4

18

8.5

127

9.0

152

8.5

0.148

Chronic physical diseases (N = 1766)

 

8

5.0

4

1.9

47

3.4

59

3.3

0.255

Lifetime Neuropsychiatric condition (N = 1678)

 

8

5.4

8

3.9

25

1.9

41

2.4

0.011

Pre-earthquake mental health care (N = 1755)

 

10

6.3

13

6.1

67

4.8

90

5.1

0.563

Post-earthquake mental health care (N = 1745)

 

15

9.5

7

3.3

28

2.0

50

2.9

0.000

Parents' pre-earthquake mental health care

Mother (N = 1749)

13

8.2

9

4.2

54

3.9

76

4.4

0.045

Father (N = 1671)

3

1.9

8

3.9

20

1.5

31

1.9

0.066

Parents' post-earthquake mental health care

Mother (N = 1735)

10

6.3

4

1.9

19

1.4

33

1.9

0.000

Father (N = 1655)

4

2.6

3

1.5

12

0.9

19

1.2

0.175

Present in the earthquake zone during the disaster (N = 1745)

 

152

98.7

172

82.7

63

4.6

387

22.2

0.000

Uninhabitable home after the earthquake (N = 1586)

 

117

74.1

23

10.9

176

14.5

316

19.9

0.000

Internally displaced (N = 1464)

 

153

96.2

41

20.0

50

4.6

244

16.7

0.000

Parents lost their job after the earthquake

Mother (N = 1835)

22

13.8

4

1.9

8

0.6

34

1.9

0.000

Father (N = 1835)

19

11.9

0

0.0

10

0.7

29

1.6

0.000

  1. Note: The number of observations varies across the items because of missing values.
  2. Differences among the subsamples from different areas are calculated by χ2 test.