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Table 3 Traumatic Experience of study participants

From: Common mental disorders and its associated factors and mental health care services for Ethiopian labour migrants returned from Middle East countries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Traumatic event

Number

Percept (95% CI)

Physical abuse

 Yes

165

31.9% (95% CI=27.8, 36.2)

 No

352

68.1% (95% CI=63.8, 72.2)

Verbal abuse

 Yes

282

54.5% (95% CI=50.3, 58.8)

 No

235

45.5% (95% CI=41.2, 49.7)

Sexual abuse (female only)

 Yes

68

23.1% (95% CI=18.8, 28.0)

 No

226

76.9% (95% CI=72.0, 81.2)

Got salary timely

 Got salary timely and properly

107

20.7% (95% CI=17.4, 24.4)

 Got salary sometimes

324

62.7% (95% CI=58.2, 66.2)

 Never got salary

86

16.6% (95% CI=13.3, 20.3)

Employer hold passport forcefully

 Yes

445

86.1% (95% CI=83.4, 89.2)

 No

72

13.9% (95% CI=10.8, 16.6)

Were refused to communicate/contact family

 Yes

170

32.9% (95% CI=28.8, 37.1)

 No

347

67.1% (95% CI=62.9, 71.2)

Experienced detention during the journey and/or at destination country

 Yes

188

36.4% (95% CI=32.1, 40.6)

 No

329

63.6% (95% CI=59.4, 67.9)

Guilty feeling for not fulfilling primary goal of migration

 Yes

318

61.5% (95% CI=57.6, 65.6)

 No

199

38.5% (95% CI=34.4, 42.4)

Access to health care at destination country

 Yes

120

23.2% (95% CI=19.3, 26.7)

 No

397

76.8% (95% CI=73.3, 80.7)