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 landmine 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. Persons were categorised as having “high” vs. “low” current stress, based on the median-split of the mean score frequency distribution.