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. 2024 Jun 11;52(10):1635–1646. doi: 10.1007/s10802-024-01211-y

Table 1.

Sociodemographics, violence exposure and mental health descriptive statistics in imputed data (N = 978)

Variable Distribution
Proportion/ Mean (SD)
Child Sex Female 49.1%
Household Monthly Income < R1000 (52.56 USD) 35.2%
R1000-5000 (52.56 - 258.66 USD) 52.5%
>R5000 (258.66 USD) 12.3%
Education Primary 7.3%
Some Secondary 55.4%
Completed Secondary 31.7%
Any Tertiary 5.6%
Employment Currently Unemployed 73.8%
Currently Employed 26.2%
Marital status Single 60.4%
Married/Cohabiting 39.6%
Prenatal Tobacco Exposure Unexposed 70.4%
Exposed 29.6%
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Unexposed 87.0%
Exposed 13.0%
Child HIV Exposure HIV Unexposed 78.0%
HIV Exposed Uninfected 22.0%
Maternal Antenatal Depression Above Clinical Threshold 23.6%
Below Clinical Threshold 76.4%
Any Violence Exposed 82.5%
Witnessing Community Violence Exposed 73.8%
Community Victimisation Exposed 13.1%
Witnessing Domestic Violence Exposed 32.3%
Domestic Victimisation Exposed 31.0%
Polyvictimisation None 17.5%
1 type 37.7%
2 types 25.8%
3 types 15.0%
4 types 4.0%
Internalising Behaviour Problems Mean (SD) 43.7 (13.0)
Subclinical problems 5.6%
Clinical symptoms 10.3%
Non-clinical symptoms 84.1%
Externalising Behaviour Problems Mean (SD) 41.3 (10.4)
Subclinical symptoms 2.9%
Clinical symptoms 3.6%
Non-clinical symptoms 93.5%