In order to assess current stress due to daily life adversities, respondents were asked to rank
on a scale of 1–4 (1 = never, 2 = occasionally, 3 = often, 4 = very often) how often they felt
stressed in their daily lives by 12 items such as food scarcity, financial worry, and fear of land-
mine injury. For information on the development of the 12 item scale, see Cantor-Graae et al.
[6]. A mean score was derived based on the summary scores divided by items answered. Per-
sons were categorised as having “high” vs. “low” current stress, based on the median-split of
the mean score frequency distribution.