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

Table 6 Predictors of anxiety 15 months after explosion among children present in Omagh (N= 222)

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Variable	β	p	β	p	β	p
Pre-trauma
Age	−2.244	0.059	−2.396	0.039*	−2.331	0.041*
Male	−15.313	0.000**	−14.067	0.000**	−14.271	0.000**
Previous psychological treatment	10.317	0.052	10.607	0.039*	8.604	0.091
Peri-trauma
Perceived life threat			15.467	0.001**	13.151	0.006**
Physically injured			−3.812	0.515	−6.784	0.246
Witnessed serious injury			7.621	0.028*	7.244	0.034*
Witness people dying			−2.235	0.531	−3.271	0.354
Witnessed people dead			5.334	0.133	4.849	0.165
Post-trauma
Post-event support					16.651	0.004**

Notes:
1. Anxiety symptoms measured by Spence Childhood Anxiety Scale (SCAS) score.
2. Those present in 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 =0.096; Model 2 Adjusted R² = 0.180; Model 3 Adjusted R² = 0.210.
5. P: *significant at the 0.05 level; **significant at the 0.01 level.

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