Persistent fear of aftershocks, impairment of working memory, and acute stress disorder predict post-traumatic stress disorder: 6-month follow-up of help seekers following the L’Aquila earthquake

Roncone, Rita; Giusti, Laura; Mazza, Monica; Bianchini, Valeria; Ussorio, Donatella; Pollice, Rocco; Casacchia, Massimo

doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-636

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Table 3 Distribution of socio-demographic, trauma-event and clinical and neurocognitive variables and results of the 4 blocks of the model (for categorial variables, the reference group is indicated)

From: Persistent fear of aftershocks, impairment of working memory, and acute stress disorder predict post-traumatic stress disorder: 6-month follow-up of help seekers following the L’Aquila earthquake

	Block 1					Block 2					Block 3					Block 4
	B	OR	CI 95% L	CI 95% U	p	B	OR	CI 95% L	CI 95% U	p	B	OR	CI 95% L	CI 95% U	p	B	OR	CI 95% L	CI 95% U	p
Gender
Women/man	-0,8219	0,4396	0,16	1,206	0,11	-1,2625	0,2829	0,0644	1,243	0,0946	-1,327	0,265	0,0486	1,447	0,125	-2,254	0,105	0,010	1,063	0,056
Age group
Other/15-24	-0,6542	0,5198	0,173	1,561	0,243	-0,796	0,4511	0,0963	2,114	0,3124	-0,447	0,639	0,0964	4,24098	0,643	-0,851	0,427	0,046	3,962	0,454
Other 60 and over	-07695	0,4633	0,081	2,664	0,389	-1,1705	0,3102	0,0187	5,135	0,4137	-0,398	0,671	0,0377	11,9544	0,786	-2,127	0,119	0,000	36,207	0,466
Education
8 years or less/more than 8 years	-0,1161	0,8904	0,288	2,75	0,84	0,344	1,4107	0,2613	7,616	0,6892	0,2487	1,282	0,1764	9,31903	0,806	0,978	2,658	0,237	29,795	0,428
Children
No/yes	-1,3783	0,252	0,052	1,232	0,089	-1,5834	0,0191	2,205	2,205	0,1911	-1,916	0,147	0,0104	2,044	0,153	-3,722	0,024	0,000	2,102	0,102
Feeling like “going” to die
No/yes						0,096	1,1009	0,2601	4,659	0,8961	-0,033	0,968	0,1864	5,02403	0,969	-0,167	0,846	0,136	5,258	0,858
Physical injuries
No/yes						3,514	33,60	1,1013	1024,8	0,0439	2,1105	8,252	0,1796	379,055	0,280	-0,377	0,174	0,003	155,542	0,902
Death of relative
No/yes						1,681	5,3719	0,3338	86,455	0,2356	1,989	7,308	0.3552	150,384	0,197	2,577	13,153	0,421	411,151	0,142
Persistent fear for aftershocks
No/yes						2,837	17,064	2,9639	98,238	0,0015	3,1793	24,029	2,8911	199,709	0,003	4,054	57,606	3,577	927,695	0,004
Damaged property
No/yes						0,592	1,807	0,3596	9,079	0,4726	0,7042	2,022	0,362	11,2976	0,422	1,092	2,981	0,272	32,662	0,371
Displacement
No/yes						-1,0254	0,3587	0,0537	2,394	0,2897	-1,184	0,306	0,0345	2,716	0,288	-0,267	0,765	0,056	10,516	0,842
Distress for lack of privacy
No/yes						1,065	2,9018	0,5096	16,523	0,23	0,5866	1,798	0,264	12,245	0,549	0,731	2,077	0,199	21,697	0,541
Lack of friends
No/yes						-1,327	0,2653	0,0495	1,422	0,1214	-1,286	0,276	0,0385	1,983	0,201	-2,418	0,089	0,007	1,173	0,066
Job loss in the town
No/yes						-0,1011	0,9039	0,2239	3,649	0,8871	-0,753	0,471	0,0818	2,713	0,399	-2,418	0,089	0,007	1,173	0,066
partial ASD
No/yes											2,3979	11,001	1,6413	73,7308	0,013	2,861	17,472	1,860	164,154	0,012
Previous contact with MHS
No/yes											0,4241	1,528	0,247	9,455	0,648	-1,345	0,260	0,019	3,542	0,312
MODA verbal memory
Impairment/no impairment																2,520	12,429	0,807	191,352	0,071
Working memory - forward
Impairment/no impairment																0,414	1,512	0,024	95,635	0,845
Working memory - backward
Impairment/no impairment																3,878	48,329	1,900	1229,521	0,019

OR = Odds Ratio; CI = Confidence Interval; L = Lower; U = Upper.

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