Violence against primary school children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Levels of violence, disabled versus non disabled girls and boys

	Boys (n = 1769)			Girls (n = 1937)
Characteristic	No disability,%	Disabled,%	P	No disability,%	Disabled,%	P
Any violence from any perpetrator	95.3	96.2	0.644	95.5	99.5	0.009
Physical violence	93.4	95.8	0.379	94.6	99.1	0.010
Sexual violence	3.8	7.1	0.092	12.3	23.6	0.002
Emotional violence and neglect	59.4	63.6	0.400	57.5	65.2	0.140
Violence from school staff	94.1	94.4	0.893	94.4	97.7	0.109
Physical violence	93.3	93.8	0.786	93.9	98.0	0.076
Sexual violence	1.8	2.6	0.654	2.2	3.6	0.361
Emotional violence and neglect	31.9	40.5	0.003	29.4	38.2	0.053
Injury	64.5	70.0	0.208	68.7	73.5	0.140
Severe physical violence	7.0	5.5	0.566	6.8	10.8	0.123
Past week physical violence	53.0	43.8	0.025	51.2	60.5	0.054
Violence from parents/caregivers	13.3	12.4	0.757	32.3	32.2	0.967
Physical violence	10.7	9.1	0.486	28.1	28.6	0.906
Sexual violence^a	-	-	-	-	-	-
Emotional violence	4.8	4.2	0.760	8.9	9.9	0.760
Violence from female peers	12.0	13.9	0.527	24.7	33.3	0.152
Physical violence	1.7	2.1	0.756	8.7	9.2	0.901
Sexual violence^a	-	-	-	-	-	-
Emotional violence	10.5	11.3	0.819	19.0	27.5	0.055
Neglect
Violence from male peers	48.4	54.3	0.293	31.8	34.4	0.568
Physical violence	31.4	36.3	0.360	21.0	22.2	0.784
Sexual violence^a	1.1	4.5	0.015	3.7	7.8	0.026
Emotional violence	33.8	35.9	0.702	15.6	16.7	0.764
Violence from others	9.4	10.1	0.779	17.8	24.1	0.081
Physical violence^b	5.4	9.2	0.186	9.6	15.7	0.0002
Sexual violence^c	0.3	1.7	0.003	0.1	17.0	0.0001
Emotional violence	9.7	10.2	0.832	15.9	22.0	0.089

^aNot estimated (too few cases reported) ^bfor females, nearly all others for physical violence are other relatives (12.6% of disabled girls report physical violence by relative versus 4.6% non disabled, p = 0.006) ^cfor females, nearly all ‘others’ for sexual violence are reported as ‘other’—ie not boyfriend, girlfriend, other relative or would rather not say who (14.4% of disabled girls report sexual violence by others verses 6.4% of non-disabled girls); for males, nearly all others are other relatives (1.1% versus 0 non disabled).

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