Recently resettled refugee women-at-risk in Australia evidence high levels of psychiatric symptoms: individual, trauma and post-migration factors predict outcomes

Table 2 Frequencies and proportion of women-at-risk participants experiencing traumatic events (N = 104): comparison with Sudanese^a (n = 15) and Burmese^b (n = 32) women who arrived through Humanitarian (201) or Refugee (subclass 200) visas

Item	Trauma event	Women-at-risk		Sudanese^a	Burmese^b
Item	Trauma event	n	%	%	%
1	Lack of food or water	66	63.5	73.3	71.9
3	Lack of shelter	61	58.7	66.7	71.9
2	Ill health without access to medical care	56	53.8	26.7	43.8
11	Forced separation from family members	56	53.8	93.3	46.9
10	Being close to death	52	50.0	40.0	37.5
5	Serious injury	50	48.1	20.0	15.6
13	Unnatural death of family or friend	47	45.2	20.0	34.4
16	Torture	46	44.2	26.7	12.5
4	Imprisonment/detention	45	43.3	13.3	12.5
12	Murder of family or friends	43	41.3	80.0	21.9
6	Combat situation	42	40.4	46.7	53.1
15	Lost or kidnapped	42	40.4	13.3	9.4
9	Forced isolation from others	37	35.6	33.3	9.4
8	Rape or sexual abuse^c	34	33.7	13.3	16.1
14	Murder of stranger or strangers	34	32.7	26.7	15.6
7	Brain washing	25	24.0	13.3	21.9
17	Threatened by dangerous animals	16	15.4	00.0	25.0

^aUsing split-group analysis of data from Schweitzer et al. [12]
^bUsing split-group analysis of data from Schweitzer et al. [13]
^cThree participants chose not to answer this question in the women-at-risk group

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