Prevalence of and factors influencing posttraumatic stress disorder among mothers of children under five in Kabul, Afghanistan, after decades of armed conflicts

Table 3 Association between PTSD symptoms and traumatic experiences of armed conflict-related events (n = 1172)

				PTSD symptom clusters
	PTSD			Re-experiencing			Avoidance			Arousal
	OR	95%CI		OR	95%CI		OR	95%CI		OR	95%CI
Experiences related to armed conflict
Shelling or rocket attacks	3.37	2.48–4.58	**	15.24	8.88–26.10	**	3.28	2.42–4.46	**	2.54	1.67–3.88	**
Bomb explosions	2.37	1.66–3.39	**	10.15	5.67–18.19	**	2.40	1.69–3.42	**	2.00	1.24–3.22	*
Disabled family member because of conflict	1.31	0.86–2.01		1.73	1.13–2.65	*	1.40	0.93–2.12		1.30	0.79–2.12
Murder of family members or relatives	4.41	2.86–6.72	**	29.60	9.39–93.43	**	4.82	3.09–7.54	**	1.92	1.09–3.39	*
Missing or loss of family members	3.45	2.15–5.52	**	33.90	8.43–136.8	**	3.78	2.34–6.13	**	2.10	1.09–4.03	*
Others	2.62	1.84–3.74	**	17.45	8.46–35.97	**	2.65	1.86–3.77	**	1.79	1.13–2.83	*
Number of armed conflict-related events experienced
0	1.00			1.00			1.00			1.00
1	10.02	7.12–14.09	**	49.00	31.24–77.01	**	8.61	6.27–11.84	**	2.91	2.07–4.09	**
2	10.57	7.02–15.90	**	40.10	22.42–71.67	**	10.47	7.05–15.54	**	2.45	1.57–3.50	**
3–7	12.16	6.47–22.83	**	179.30	24.53–1311.2	**	9.67	5.19–18.00	**	4.42	1.72–3.80	**

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