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Table 3 Crude mean scores, with lower and upper 95% Confidence Interval (CI) of internalizing and externalizing mental health problems across adolescent's own and parental war experience and where both the adolescent and parents had war experience.

From: Own and parental war experience as a risk factor for mental health problems among adolescents with an immigrant background: results from a cross sectional study in Oslo, Norway

  

Mental health problems

  

Internalizing problem

Externalizing problems

Own war experience

 

n

Mean

Lower CI

Upper CI

N

Mean

Lower CI

Upper CI

Boys

Yes

106

1.43

1.33

1.53

108

6.60*

5.96

7.25

 

No

652

1.34

1.31

1.38

655

5.78

5.52

6.02

Girls

Yes

103

1.66

1.55

1.77

105

5.76

5.22

6.30

 

No

689

1.63

1.59

1.68

701

5.48

5.26

5.70

Parental war experience***

         

Boys

Yes

274

1.43**

1.38

1.49

277

6.30*

5.91

6.69

 

Don't know

214

1.33

1.27

1.39

215

5.79

5.33

6.24

 

No

279

1.29

1.25

1.34

280

5.52

5.15

5.89

Girls

Yes

263

1.73**

1.65

1.81

265

5.56

5.19

5.92

 

Don't know

236

1.66

1.58

1.73

246

5.72

5.35

6.09

 

No

299

1.55

1.49

1.60

302

5.32

4.99

5.65

Own and parental war experience

         

Boys

Yes

92

1.44

1.33

1.55

93

6.51

5.82

7.19

 

No

271

1.30

1.24

1.35

271

6.49

5.84

7.18

Girls

Yes

93

1.70

1.58

1.82

95

5.52

4.96

6.07

 

No

295

1.55

1.49

1.62

298

5.30

4.96

5.64

  1. F-test: * p < 0.05 and ** p = 0.001. *** Post-hoc test (Tukey) showed that the differences among the parental group were between those with and without parental war experience.