The prevalence of exposure to domestic violence and the factors associated with co-occurrence of psychological and physical violence exposure: a sample from primary care patients

Table 1 Demographic Characteristics of the Respondents

Characteristic	All participants		Domestic violence Exposure				p-value	Psychol. violence		Psychol. and Physic. violence
			no		yes
	(n = 829)	%	(n = 702)	%	(n = 127)	%		(n = 78)	%	(n = 49)	%
Gender							< 0.001
male	323	39.0	297	42.3	26	20.5		15	19.2	11	22.4
female	506	61.0	405	57.7	101	79.5		63	80.8	38	77.6
Age (in years)							0.001
18-35	149	18.0	112	16.0	37	29.1		22	28.2	15	30.6
36-49	230	27.7	194	27.6	36	28.3		21	26.9	15	30.6
50-64	230	27.7	197	28.1	33	26.0		23	29.5	10	20.4
65 or above	220	26.5	199	28.3	21	16.5		12	15.4	9	18.4
Marital status							0.208
single	103	12.4	85	12.1	81	63.8		9	11.5	9	18.4
in partnership	582	70.2	501	71.4	18	14.2		53	67.9	28	57.1
divorced	144	17.4	116	16.5	28	22.0		16	20.5	12	24.5
Residency							0.213
rural	297	35.8	258	36.8	39	30.7		24	30.8	15	30.6
suburbs	128	15.4	111	15.8	17	13.4		6	7.7	11	22.4
urban	404	48.7	333	47.4	71	55.9		48	61.5	23	46.9
Number of divorces							< 0.001
none	685	82.6	588	83.8	97	76.4		62	79.5	35	71.4
one	131	15.8	109	15.5	22	17.3		12	15.4	10	20.4
two	13	1.6	5	0.7	8	6.3		4	5.1	4	8.2
Number of children							0.735
none	157	18.9	129	18.4	28	22.0		17	21.8	11	22.4
one	218	26.3	185	26.4	33	26.0		24	30.8	9	18.4
two	303	36.6	257	36.6	46	36.2		29	37.2	17	34.7
three or more	151	18.2	131	18.7	20	15.7		8	10.3	12	24.5

ISSN: 1471-2458