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Table 2 Mental health symptoms by various characteristics of Ethiopian victims of trafficking, 2016

From: Socio-economic, trafficking exposures and mental health symptoms of human trafficking returnees in Ethiopia: using a generalized structural equation modelling

Characteristics

Number (percent)

Anxiety (n = 1369)

Depression (1370)

PTSD (n = 1372)

Age at departure

 14–17

41 (48.81)

50 (60.24)

12 (14.46)

 18–20

222 (53.75)

236 (57.28)

134 (32.45)

 21–25

360 (52.55)

402 (58.43)

271 (39.33)

 26–49

89 (47.59)

109 (58.29)

54 (28.88)

Sex

 Male

336 (47.39)

362 (50.84)

205 (28.79)

 Female

376 (56.97)

435 (66.11)

266 (40.30)

Residence

 Rural

481 (53.33)

518 (57.43)

333 (36.84)

 Urban

231 (49.46)

279 (59.62)

138 (29.49)

Social support

 Poor

561 (58.13)

599 (62.07)

363 (37.58)

 Medium

111 (41.57)

147 (54.85)

71 (26.39)

 Strong

40 (29.20)

51 (37.23)

37 (27.01)

Smuggled at departure

 Yes

113 (40.50)

139 (49.47)

67 (23.59)

 No

599 (54.95)

658 (60.42)

404 (37.13)

Trafficking corridor

 Metemma-Yohannes

348 (43.94)

428 (53.90)

161 (20.23)

 Moyale

89 (45.18)

10 1 (51.27)

55 (27.92)

 Galafi

265 (75.28)

254 (72.36)

247 (70.37)

 Others

10 (35.71)

14 (50.0)

8 (28.57)

Type of job at destination

 Domestic work

288 (58.06)

335 (67.68)

186 (37.42)

 Agriculture/animal farm

178 (47.09)

186 (49.34)

160 (42.55)

 Manufacture and services

118 (47.97)

135 (54.88)

74 (30.08)

 Did not start

108 (53.20)

115 (56.37)

39 (19.12)

 Others

20 (43.48)

26 (54.17)

12 (24.49)

Restricted freedom

 Yes

503 (61.04)

540 (65.53)

355 (42.93)

 No

209 (38.35)

257 (47.07)

116 (21.28)

Duration of detention (weeks)

 Not detained

230 (40.64)

290 (51.42)

117 (20.63)

  ≤ 1

70 (50.00)

83 (58.04)

31 (21.68)

 2–4

250 (68.12)

253 (68.94)

207 (56.40)

 5–12

78 (80.41)

74 (76.29)

64 (66.67)

 13–51

84 (42.21)

97 (48.74)

52 (26.13)

Violence

 Yes

522 (59.79)

560 (64.29)

356 (40.83)

 No

522 (52.01)

237 (47.49)

115 (23.00)

  1. Violence = either physical, sexual or both types of violence experienced during the trafficking period; smuggled at departure = smuggling started to pass Ethiopian border and beyond but not smuggling started in other countries
  2. For anxiety data, 18 persons had at least one missed score (n = 1369); similarly, for depression 17 persons (n = 1370), and for PTSD 15 persons had at least one missed score (n = 1372)