Table 1 Demographics and Clinical Characteristics of Participantsa

From: Microstructural Abnormalities in Children with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study at 3.0T

 

NC (n = 24)

PTSD (n = 27)

p-value

Ageb

13.2(±1.3)

13.0(±1.8)

0.76d

Gender (male/female)

11/13

11/16

0.71e

Handedness (R/L)

24/0

27/0

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Years of educationc

7.8(±1.6)

7.7(±1.7)

0.78d

Time since trauma (months)b

12.1(±1.6)

11.7(±1.6)

0.41d

PTSD checklist

24.0(±2.9)

53.8(±5.1)

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CAPS

—

65.1(±8.3)

—

  1. aData are presented as mean ± SD. Analyses performed in SPSS 16.0 (http://www.spss.com). All tests were two-tailed. No significant differences were found between PTSD patients and non-PTSD controls in age, gender, education and time since trauma. Abbreviations: NC: traumatized controls; PTSD: patients with post-traumatic stress disorder; CAPS: clinician-administered PTSD scale.
  2. bAt the time of magnetic resonance scanning.
  3. cTotal years of completed education as reported by participant and guardian.
  4. dBy two-sample t-test.
  5. eBy Pearson chi-square test.
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