Using a biopsychosocial approach to examine differences in post-traumatic stress symptoms between Arab and Jewish Israeli mothers following a child’s traumatic medical event

Table 3 Multivariate regression model of possible predictors of mothers PTSS

	Regression factor	Unstandardized coefficients ß-coefficients Std. Error		P-value
Step 1	Child’s gender (male)	5.869	2.545	0.02
	Age at TME (years)	0.313	0.201	0.12
	Ethnicity (Arab)	6.343	2.305	0.007
	R = 0.387; model explained variance (R²) = 0.15, F_(3,93) *= 5.285, p = 0.002*
Step 2	Child’s gender (male)	4.705	2.676	0.08
	Age at TME (years)	0.172	0.204	0.40
	Ethnicity (Arab)	7.332	2.434	0.003
	Structure and resources	17.610	9.023	0.05
	Social support	5.869	5.939	0.32
	Family problems	5.840	6.712	0.39
	Child problems	3.027	5.568	0.59
	Sibling problems	−5.230	9.269	0.58
	R = 0.501; model explained variance (R²) = 0.25, F_(8,93) *= 3.558, p = 0.001*

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