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Table 5 Cumulative incidence (%, with 95% confidence interval) of hospitalization for any injury and injury caused by assault between twelfth and eighteenth birthday, NT children who turned age twelve in 2006-2010

From: The extent of violence inflicted on adolescent Aboriginal girls in the Northern Territory

 

Aboriginal

Non-Aboriginal

Male

n = 3355

Female

n = 3268

Male

n = 3667

Female

N = 3241

Injury (any) hospitalization

 Cum. Incidence

17.3 (16.1-18.7)

10.9 (9.9-12.0)

11.8 (10.8-12.9)

6.7 (5.9-7.6)

  > 1 episodea

26.6 (23.1-30.4)

29.3 (24.7-34.3)

22.2 (18.4-26.4)

22.2 (16.9-28.4)

Assault hospitalization

 Cum. incidence

3.4 (2.8-4.0)

4.6 (3.9-5.3)

0.7 (0.4-1.0)

0.3 (0.1-0.5)

  > 1 episode

16.8 (10.4-25.0)

30.9 (23.6-39.0)

20.8 (7.1-42.2)

0.0 (0.0-33.6)

Substantiated physical and/or sexual abuse

 Cum. incidence

2.9 (2.3-3.5)

9.1 (8.2-10.2)

2.0 (1.6-2.5)

2.8 (2.3-3.5)

  > 1 episode

14.6 (8.2-23.3)

21.4 (16.9-26.5)

19.4 (11.1-30.5)

18.5 (11.1-27.9)

  1. a proportion of children with any hospitalization/substantiation who had more than one hospitalization/substantiation