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

Table 4 Association between PTSD and material deprivation and support seeking behavior among women who did and did not report having experienced armed conflict-related events

	Experience of events related to armed conflict (n = 555)				No experience of events related to armed conflict (n = 617)
	PTSD n = 290 (52.7%)				PTSD n = 59 (9.6%)
	n	OR	95%CI		n	OR	95%CI
Hardships in basic needs
Shortage of food	289	2.04	1.45–2.88	**	277	1.86	1.07–3.23	*
Shortage of water	149	1.27	0.86–1.86		193	0.74	0.40–1.36
Shortage of shelter	285	1.34	0.95–1.88		294	0.59	0.34–1.03
Resources sought for mental health support
Health facility	492	0.59	0.34–1.02		568	0.27	0.13–0.56	**
Religious leader	339	0.88	0.62–1.24		391	0.48	0.28–0.83	**
Reading Quran or praying	308	0.94	0.67–1.32		390	0.52	0.30–0.90	*
Spiritual Healer	239	0.72	0.50–1.01		352	0.26	0.15–0.48	**
Visiting friends	238	0.73	0.52–1.03		291	0.27	0.14–0.49	**

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