Table 3.
Analysis of differences between type of abuse and age
| Parameter | Sexual abuse (n = 111) |
Physical abuse (n = 98) |
Test statistic | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | F(2.90, 499.68) = 7.952 | < 0.001 | ||
| [Newborn – 36 months] | 7 (6.4) | 34 (34.7) | ||
| Between 3 and 6 years | 30 (27.3) | 20 (20.4) | β = 1.986 (0.515), z = 3.857 | < 0.001 |
| Between 6 and 12 years | 37 (33.6) | 27 (27.6) | β = 1.896 (0.512), z = 3.699 | < 0.001 |
| Between 12 and 18 years | 36 (32.7) | 17 (17.3) | β = 2.331 (0.535), z = 4.357 | < 0.001 |
| Missing | 1 |
Annotation. Numbers are absolute values (percentages); F-values, Pearson’s chi-square test with second-order correction of Rao and Scott (1992); β-values, regression slopes (SE) for age group versus baseline in squared brackets