Table 4 Severity of the mental health disturbances among the study participants by Severity of the exposure

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

P*

Mean (SD)

P*

P**

Somatization

1.50(0.88)

1.78(0.83)

0.014

1.78(0.82)

0.016

0.998

Obsessive-compulsive

1.37(0.85)

1.54(0.81)

0.155

1.56(0.77)

0.109

0.963

Interpersonal sensitivity

1.08(0.76)

1.19(0.75)

0.428

1.15(0.75)

0.707

0.891

Depression

1.20(0.75)

1.40(0.80)

0.073

1.45(0.82)

0.024

0.840

Anxiety

1.24(0.81)

1.41(0.78)

0.184

1.42(0.81)

0.146

0.978

Hostility

1.10(0.84)

1.37(0.79)

0.013

1.36(0.78)

0.019

0.999

Phobic anxiety

0.76(0.72)

0. 75(0.81)

0.999

0.71(0.82)

0.883

0.883

Paranoid ideation

1.20(0.80)

1.31(0.75)

0.431

1.20(0.74)

0.998

0.339

Psychoticism

0.78(0.66)

0.82(0.69)

0.891

0.84(0.70)

0.795

0.972

Global severity index (GSI)

1.16(0.70)

1.31(0.68)

0.160

1.31(0.68)

0.188

1.000

Positive symptom total (PST)

51.10(23.25)

53.05(19.75)

0.695

52.73(19.93)

0.788

0.989

Positive symptom distress index (PSDI)

1.94(0.46)

2.14(0.50)

0.001

2.15(0.46)

0.001

0.986