Table 1.

Characteristics for the Three Samples

Characteristics	Cameroon (n = 201)		Switzerland (n = 147)		Togo (n = 199)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Parent’s gender: Female	128	63.68	136	92.52	105	52.76
Child’s gender: Female	95	48.22	73	50.00	108	55.39
Geographical region    Urban    Peri-urban    Rural	164 23 10	83.25 11.68 5.80	59 48 40	40.14 32.65 27.21	141 46 8	72.31 23.59 4.10
Education level    Primary    Secondary    Professional    Superior	20 50 37 91	10.10 25.25 18.69 45.96	1 4 27 109	0.71 2.84 19.15 77.31	29 39 47 80	14.87 20.00 24.10 41.03
Religion    Catholic    Protestant    Muslim    Traditional beliefs    Irreligion    Other	115 48 10 3 7 17	57.50 24.00 5.00 1.50 3.50 8.50	54 20 5 0 53 7	38.85 14.39 3.60 0 38.13 5.04	84 44 13 5 7 42	43.08 22.56 6.67 2.56 3.59 21.54
Childhood physical abuse above CTQ cut-off a	74	36.82	13	8.84	48	24.12

^aParents above the cut-off, which is at 11, were considered to have experienced childhood physical abuse