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Table 3 Baseline characteristics of the outcome and mediator variables split by household illness status

From: Household illness, poverty and physical and emotional child abuse victimisation: findings from South Africa’s first prospective cohort study

 

Healthy (comparison group) (n = 1824)

Other chronic illness (n = 482)

AIDS-ill (n = 1095)

Physical abuse at follow-up

14.9% (278)

11.3% (64)*

20.9% (222)*

Emotional abuse at follow-up

18.7% (349)

19.9% (94)

24.6% (261)*

Poverty at baseline

2.58 (SD 2.29) SE .05

2.06 (SD 2.02) SE .93*

3.14 (SD 2.39) SE .07*

Disability at baseline

.36 (SD 1.76) SE .04

2.81 (SD 3.87) SE .18*

4.74 (SD 4.73) SE .15*

  1. Chi2and One-Way-Anova tests. Note: *p < .05.