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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2023 Jul 11;150:106336. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106336

Table 5.

Estimating internalized mental health outcomes and substance use from childhood exposure poly-victimization among females, 2018 Colombia Violence against Children and Youth Survey.

Female Youth (13–24) n = 1406
Internalized Mental Health Outcomes
Substance Use
Suicidal Thoughts
Self-Harm
Psychological Distress
Binge Drinking
Smoking
Crude
Adjusted
Crude
Adjusted
Crude
Adjusted
Crude
Adjusted
Crude
Adjusted
OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value OR; [95 % CI]; p-value

Unexposed to violence (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Exposed to 1 Form of Violence 2.94* [1.08, 8.06] 0.04 2.59 [0.93, 7.24] 0.07 1.72 [0.68, 4.32] 0.25 1.59 [0.55, 4.64] 0.392 1.72 [0.91, 3.24] 0.10 1.46 [0.72, 2.94] 0.29 1.00 [0.53, 1.89] 0.99 0.94 [0.48, 1.83] 0.84 1.42 [0.46, 4.41] 0.54 1.08 [0.37, 3.14] 0.89
Exposed to Poly-victimization 16.11* [7.38, 35.18] <0.0001 11.98* [5.05, 28.44] <0.0001 9.78* [4.12, 23.23] <0.0001 9.49* [3.67, 24.58] <0.0001 4.23* [2.14, 8.36] <0.0001 3.15* [1.66, 6.00] 0.00 1.40 [0.80, 2.42] 0.24 1.27 [0.74, 2.20] 0.39 3.99* [1.19, 13.39] 0.03 2.42 [0.76, 7.73] 0.14
n 1399 1303 1403 1306 1406 1308 1180 1105 1404 1306
Max Rescaled Pseudo R2 0.28 0.29 0.20 0.27 0.09 0.10 0.01 0.13 0.06 0.16
c-statistic 0.77 0.79 0.73 0.79 0.63 0.64 0.56 0.64 0.65 0.63

Notes. Models adjusted for the individual characteristics of age, completed primary school, parental presence, and presence of partner, and witnessing community violence. Under 3 % of the female sample reported drug use (n = 40), thus the OR estimates are not presented; OR = Odds Ratio; aOR = Adjusted Odds Ratio.

*

p-value <0.05.