Table 2.

Health outcomes by demographics, ACE count and school experience

	Current smoker	Current binge drinker	Low mental wellbeing	Lifetime mental illness*	Current mental illness*	Violence victim	Violence perpetrator
All
n	239	454	304	496	261	68	43
%	12.8	24.3	16.3	27.0	14.2	3.6	2.3
Sex
Male	14.7	32.1	13.4	20.4	9.8	4.0	3.2
Female	11.2	17.8	18.7	32.6	17.9	3.3	1.6
X 2	5.026	51.372	9.502	34.328	24.913	0.562	5.271
P	0.025	< 0.001	0.002	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.454	0.022
Age group
18–29	17.4	34.8	22.6	30.9	18.1	13.3	11.1
30–49	14.1	31.4	14.4	30.3	16.7	3.6	1.6
50–69	14.7	24.0	17.4	30.3	16.0	1.4	0.4
70+	5.4	8.0	13.4	15.6	5.9	0.5	0.2
X 2	28.907	94.435	12.547	36.267	31.716	92.437	111.927
P	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.006	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Ethnicity
White	12.8	24.6	15.9	27.2	14.3	3.6	2.2
Other than white	12.5	17.5	23.8	23.4	11.7	5.0	5.0
X 2	0.006	2.103	3.428	0.535	0.419	0.441	2.705
P	0.936	0.147	0.064	0.464	0.518	0.507	0.100
Deprivation quintile
(Most) 1	17.0	19.0	24.6	30.9	19.8	4.7	4.7
2	15.8	22.7	19.7	28.3	16.3	1.9	1.9
3	14.4	29.1	14.4	23.9	11.9	4.5	1.8
4	9.3	24.9	14.9	30.1	14.2	4.2	2.1
(Least) 5	7.8	25.5	8.6	22.2	9.3	2.9	1.0
X 2	22.516	11.062	39.541	11.116	19.402	6.148	12.935
P	< 0.001	0.026	< 0.001	0.025	< 0.001	0.188	0.012
ACE count
0	7.4	23.1	9.7	15.7	8.0	1.4	0.9
1	14.0	25.0	14.6	29.0	13.7	3.6	2.4
2–3	18.3	24.2	23.4	41.8	18.3	5.1	2.9
4+	31.5	29.6	43.8	61.8	41.7	13.3	8.9
X 2	99.413	3.959	158.145	219.546	160.284	70.568	49.261
P	< 0.001	0.266	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
School experience
Not bullied, higher belonging	9.2	22.8	8.2	17.1	7.8	1.6	0.9
Not bullied, lower belonging	16.8	25.8	22.4	29.9	15.0	3.4	2.2
Bullied, higher belonging	13.1	27.3	20.2	33.5	19.0	7.7	2.7
Bullied, lower belonging	21.4	26.2	36.9	56.7	34.2	9.0	7.2
X 2	35.977	3.118	152.679	185.218	131.589	44.810	40.590
P	< 0.001	0.374	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001

*31 participants reported ‘prefer not to say’, thus N for outcome = 1837. ACE, adverse childhood experience. Significant P values are shown in bold text