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Table 2 Maltreatment and young adult victimisation prevalence among males, according to sociodemographic factors in the 1993 Pelotas Birth cohort study

From: Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study

 

Maltreatment

up to Age 15

Violent Victimisation

Age 22 Years

N

Any maltreatment

%

 

N

Family Violence

Only

%

Community Violence

Only

%

Family and Community Violence

%

Maternal age (years)

 

P = 0.17

  

p = 0.904

< 20

288

31.6

 

271

11.1

3.3

4.8

20–29

841

26.6

 

825

13.8

3.0

4.4

≥ 30

446

25.6

 

445

11.9

2.7

4.3

Maternal schooling (years)

 

p = 0.143

  

p < 0.001

0–4

396

30.8

 

375

10.4

4.5

7.7

5–8

762

27.0

 

730

12.2

2.6

4.7

9–11

289

25.3

 

301

15.9

2.0

1.3

≥ 12

127

21.3

 

134

15.7

3.0

0.7

Mother with partner

 

p = 0.002

  

p = 0.087

Yes

1,367

25,9

 

1,347

12.9

2.6

4.2

No

208

36,1

 

194

11.9

5.7

5.7

Family income (quintiles)

 

p = 0.334

  

p < 0.001

Q1 (most poor)

283

29.3

 

283

11.7

3.9

10.3

Q2

376

27.4

 

360

11.4

2.2

3.6

Q3

266

30.5

 

249

12.0

2.8

2.4

Q4

316

24.7

 

316

14.2

2.8

4.1

Q5 (most rich)

307

24.1

 

307

14.3

2.9

1.6

Skin Colour

 

p < 0.001

  

p = 0.003

White

1,016

24.2

 

933

12.9

2.1

3.1

Black

230

27.4

 

212

11.3

4.3

8.5

Brown

263

36.9

 

240

14.6

5.0

6.3

Others*

65

35.4

 

61

11.5

0.0

3.3

Maltreatment

    

p < 0.001

No

1,146

  

1,008

13.0

2.1

2.7

Yes

429

  

380

13.4

4.2

7.6

Total

1,575

27.2

 

1,541

12.8

3.0

4.4

  1. Numbers are smaller for the violent victimisation analysis given loss to follow-up at age 22
  2. CI = confidence interval. P values refer to tests of whether maltreatment and violence were each equally distributed across variables shown in the lefthand column. * Others: Indigenous and East Asian