Returning home: forced conscription, reintegration, and mental health status of former abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda

Table 5 Statistically Significant Associations of Socio-demographic and Exposure Characteristics with Symptoms of PTSD and Depression

	Symptoms of PTSD		Symptoms of Depression
Independent Variables	Adjusted OR	p-value	Adjusted OR	p-value
	(95% CI)		(95% CI)
Gender
Female/Male	8.84 (6.07, 12.88)	< 0.001	2.11 (1.22, 3.63)	0.007
Ethnicity
Acholi/Iteso	3.05 (1.59, 5.87)	0.001	NS	NS
Langi/Iteso	2.15 (1.05, 4.41)	0.038	NS	NS
Acholi/Langi	1.42 (0.94, 2.16)	0.098	NS	NS
Acholi/Others	0.55 (0.65, 4.60)	0.578	NS	NS
Relationship with Family and Community	NS	NS	0.90 (0.83, 0.97)	0.007
Reported Problem Coming Home	2.97 (2.09, 4.24)	< 0.001	2.24 (1.63, 3.08)	< 0.001
Cumulative General Traumatic Exposure	NS	NS	1.18 (1.03, 1.33)	< 0.001
Cumulative Exposure as Witness	1.21 (1.10, 1.32)	< 0.001	NS	NS
Cumulative Forced Act of Violence	1.43 (1.18, 1.74)	< 0.001	2.24 (1.63, 3.08)	<0.001
Male* Age of Abduction	NS	NS	1.03 (1.01, 1.05)	0.001
Female*Age of Abduction	NS	NS	0.98 (0.95, 1.00)	0.035

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder; NA = not applicable because variable was not retained in the final model; UGS, Ugandan Shillings
Odds ratios are adjusted for the effect of other statistically significant variables in the model.
* other group comparison were examined but were also not statistically significant

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