Intersections between polyvictimisation and mental health among adolescents in five urban disadvantaged settings: the role of gender

Table 1 Summary measures of family, community, peer and intimate partner, and non-partner sexual violence, and number of types of victimisation, by gender within each city

	Baltimore W%, n			Delhi W%, n			Ibadan W%, n			Johannesburg W%, n			Shanghai W%, n
Category of violence	Male N = 276	Female N = 195	P	Male N = 250	Female N = 250	P	Male N = 233	Female N = 232	P	Male N = 273	Female N = 224	P	Male N = 235	Female N = 220	P
Family violence	16.3, 50	24.0, 52	0.02	34.8, 84	52.4, 111	0.003	52.2, 117	44.8, 97	0.24	44.5, 118	41.4, 87	0.53	20.3, 48	25.1, 51	0.17
Community violence	86.4, 219	78.8, 165	0.14	84.6, 207	75.8, 193	0.04	77.0, 161	72.8, 158	0.23	93.7, 255	88.4, 199	<0.001	29.8, 85	22.6, 52	0.03
Peer violence	39.6, 104	37.2, 72	0.40	77.3, 179	46.9, 96	0.01	72.4, 59	47.5, 42	0.23	67.6, 130	63.9, 133	0.66	61.6, 40	44.3, 33	0.02
Physical IPV	–	25.1, 48	–	–	15.9, 7	–	–	25.6, 13	–	–	30.6, 65	–	–	7.9, 9	–
Sexual IPV	–	9.9, 19	–	–	7.4, 5	–	–	15.4, 11	–	–	19.5, 44	–	–	1.7, 4	–
Non-partner SV	15.1, 42	48.7, 112	<0.001	16.7, 42	33.4, 85	0.04	50.0, 97	26.7, 53	<0.001	34.1, 98	49.4, 117	0.006	16.4, 43	34.3, 66	0.001
Number of types of victimisation^a
0	11.8, 33	10.7, 8	0.01	6.5, 17	12.4, 30	0.05	10.8, 39	17.5, 45	0.50	2.5, 6	6.0, 10	0.15	43.9, 93	38.8, 94	0.50
1	46.5, 125	29.8, 47	<0.001	24.4, 55	27.4, 68	0.18	22.4, 48	31.3, 70	0.04	22.9, 63	12.7, 30	0.04	31.1, 81	35.1, 73	0.77
2 or more (PV)	42.5, 118	71.1, 139	0.01	71.0, 178	60.5, 152	0.04	62.5, 146	50.2, 117	0.04	74.5, 204	82.0, 184	0.04	25.8, 61	23.9, 53	0.51

W% weighted percentage, n number of cases, N sample size
^aSum of numbers of experiences of family violence, community violence, peer violence, physical IPV, sexual IPV and non-partner sexual violence

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