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Table 3 Associations with mental health symptoms

From: Trafficking of Vietnamese women and girls for marriage in China

 

Symptomatic for depression

Symptomatic for anxiety disorder

Symptomatic for PTSD based on DSM 16 items score

No

Yes

 

No

Yes

 

No

Yes

 

N

%

N

%

P-value

N

%

N

%

p-value

N

%

N

%

p-value

Spent more than 100 days in trafficking situation

17

63.0%

16

69.6%

0.425

26

72.2%

7

50.0%

0.124

30

68.2%

3

50.0%

0.326

Held in detention

14

51.9%

16

66.7%

0.216

18

50.0%

12

80.0%

0.045

25

56.8%

5

71.4%

0.384

Locked in a room

4

14.8%

6

25.0%

0.287

1

2.8%

9

60.0%

<0.001

6

13.6%

4

57.1%

0.021

Free to do/go as wanted

18

66.7%

19

79.2%

0.248

25

69.4%

12

80.0%

0.343

33

75.0%

4

57.1%

0.287

Pregnant now or was pregnant during the trafficking situation

6

22.2%

5

20.8%

0.588

9

25.0%

2

13.3%

0.300

10

22.7%

1

14.3%

0.526

Physical violence during trafficking

11

40.7%

20

83.3%

0.002

17

47.2%

14

93.3%

0.002

24

54.5%

7

100%

0.023

Forced sex during trafficking

20

76.9%

23

95.8%

0.062

29

82.9%

14

93.3%

0.0311

36

83.7%

7

100%

0.323

Any violence during trafficking

22

81.5%

24

100%

0.034

31

86.1%

15

100%

0.160

39

88.6%

7

100%

0.462