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Table 2 Experience of trauma amongst URM and ARM, derived from the CATS trauma list

From: Mental health and associated stress factors in accompanied and unaccompanied refugee minors resettled in Germany: a cross-sectional study

Item (did you ever experience …)

URM,

N = 68

ARM,

N = 30

Total,

N = 98

χ2-statistics (df)

Fisher’s exact

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Dangerous journey or transport

66 (97.1)

29 (96.7)

95 (96.6)

Fisher’s exact = 1

Seeing someone in the community get slapped, punched or beat up

57 (83.8)

20 (66.7)

77 (78.6)

Fisher’s exact = .06

Lack of food or water for several days

57 (83.8)

18 (60)

75 (76.5)

Fisher’s exact = .02*

Seeing someone attacked, stabbed, shot at, hurt badly or killed

55 (80.9)

20 (66.7)

75 (76.5)

Fisher’s exact = .2

Being around war

49 (72.1)

14 (46.7)

63 (64.3)

5.85 (1)*

Someone close to you dying suddenly or violently

51 (75)

10 (33.3)

61 (62.2)

15.38 (1)***

Slapped, punched or beat up by someone not in the family

43 (63.2)

15 (50)

58 (59.2)

1.73 (1)

Serious accident or injury

46 (67.6)

8 (26.7)

54 (55.1)

14.13 (1)***

Seeing someone in the family get slapped, punched or beat up

30 (44.1)

16 (53.3)

46 (46.9)

.61 (1)

Attacked, stabbed, shot at or hurt badly

35 (51.5)

9 (30)

44 (44.9)

3.88 (1)*

Being robbed by threat, force or weapon

30 (44.1)

13 (43.3)

43 (43.9)

.005 (1)

Slapped, punched or beat up in the family

28 (41.2)

11 (36.7)

39 (39.8)

.23 (1)

Imprisonment or abduction

28 (41.2)

7 (23.3)

35 (35.7)

3.06 (1)

Serious natural disaster

18 (26.5)

10 (33.3)

28 (28.6)

Fisher’s exact = .63

Scary medical procedure

18 (26.5)

6 (20)

24 (24.5)

Fisher’s exact = .61

Committing acts of violence (voluntarily or involuntarily)

9 (13.2)

4 (13.3)

13 (13.4)

Fisher’s exact = 1

Someone older touching your private parts when they shouldn’t

9 (13.2)

2 (6.7)

11 (11.2)

Fisher’s exact = .50

Someone forcing or pressuring sex

3 (4.4)

2 (6.7)

5 (5.1)

Fisher’s exact = .64

  1. * p < .05, *** p < .001