A school based study of psychological disturbance in children following the Omagh bomb

Table 5 Predictors of PTSD symptoms 15 months after explosion among children present in Omagh (N= 212)

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Variable	β	p	β	p	β	p
Pre-trauma
Age	0.229	0.692	0.190	0.734	0.554	0.285
Male	−4.172	0.011*	−3.297	0.036*	−0.495	0.741
Previous psychological treatment	3.473	0.171	3.543	0.148	1.472	0.518
Peri-trauma
Perceived life threat			5.692	0.015*	2.541	0.250
Physically injured			−1.153	0.679	−0.331	0.899
Witnessed serious injury			4.077	0.015*	2.519	0.103
Witness people dying			0.952	0.589	1.712	0.295
Witnessed people dead			1.764	0.315	0.650	0.688
Post-trauma
Post-event support					−1.710	0.506
Depression (BDS score)					0.152	0.270
Anxiety (SCAS score)					0.173	0.000**

Notes:
1. PTSD symptoms measured by Impact of Events Scale (IES) score.
2. Those present in Omagh includes those in Omagh town centre when the bomb exploded or shortly after and/or witnessed related traumatic events.
3. Dummy variables for school included in model but excluded from the table.
4. Model 1 Adjusted R² =0.004; Model 2 Adjusted R² = 0.107; Model 3 Adjusted R² = 0.252.
5. P: *significant at the 0.05 level; **significant at the 0.01 level.

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