Table 4

- Predicting the likelihood of being of a case of PTSD using a multivariate logistic regression* (n= 279).

Predictor variables	B	Wald	p	OR	95% CI
Age
Young (18-30)	0.993	2.51	0.130	2.70	0.746 –9.76
Middle-aged (31- 45)	1.87	7.31	0.007	6.89	1.62 –26.1
Old-aged (>45)	Ref.
Gender
Female	-1.43	9.94	0.002	0.239	0.098–0.582
Male	Ref
Employment status
Unemployed	-0.876	4.54	0.033	0.416	0.186–0.932
Employed	Ref.
A family member died during the conflict
No	1.74	17.0	0.000	5.7	2.49–13.0
Yes	Ref.
If peace restore you will go back home
No	-0.234	0.194	0.660	0.792	0.279–2.24
Yes	Ref.
“Witnessed mass execution for civilians”
No	0.530	1.15	0.285	1.7	0.644–4.48
Yes	Ref.
“Witnessed shelling, burning, or razing of residential areas or marshlands”
No	1.96	12.1	0.001	7.12	2.35–21.6
Yes	Ref.
“Witnessed chemical attacks on residential areas or marshlands”
No	0.747	1.69	0.193	2.11	0.685 – 6.51
Yes	Ref.
“Serious physical injury of family member or friend from combat situation or landmine”
No	0.358	0.694	0.405	1.43	0.616 – 3.32
Yes	Ref.
“Witnessed rotting corpses”
No	0.182	0.136	0.712	1.20	0.457–3.15
Yes	Ref.
“Witnessed sexual abuse or rape”
No	1.04	3.08	0.079	2.82	0.886–9.00
Yes	Ref.

Predictor variables	B	Wald	p	OR	95% CI
“Witnessed torture”
No	0.472	1.12	0.289	1.60	0.670–3.84
Yes	Ref.
“Witnessed murder”
No	-0.123	0.062	0.804	0.884	0.335–2.34
Yes	Ref.
“Murder or violent death of a family member”
No	-.870	3.26	0.071	0.419	0.16 –1.08
Yes	Ref.
“Received the body of a family member and prohibited from mourning or performing burial rites”
No	1.32	5.80	0.016	3.73	1.28 –10.88
Yes	Ref.
“Disappearance of a family member or a friend”
No	.895	3.62	0.057	2.45	0.973 – 6.16
Yes	Ref.
“Family member or friend kidnapped”
No	-.557	1.20	0.273	0.573	0.212 – 1.55
Yes	Ref.
“Family member or friend taken as a hostage”
No	0.479	0.864	0.354	1.61	0.588 – 4.43
Yes	Ref.
“Kidnapped”
No	-2.24	3.61	0.058	0.106	0.011 – 1.07
Yes	Ref.
“Sexually abused or raped (such as, forced sexual activity)”
No	2.05	7.57	0.006	7.75	1.78 – 33.4
Yes	Ref.
“Tortured”
No	0.442	0.447	0.504	1.56	0.426 – 5.69
Yes	Ref

*Mean scores >2.5 in the sub-items (Harvard Trauma Questionnaire [HTQ]-16) or the entire scale HTQ-45 indicated a case of PTSD, B: estimated multinomial logistic regression coefficients, p: significant level, OR: Odds ration, CI: confidence interval Ref.: reference group