Table 2.
Lifetime prevalence of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse reported by pregnant women* (N = 660)
| Abuse | Lifetime abuse n (%) 302 (45.8) |
In childhood n (%) 212 (32.1) |
In adulthood n (%) 207 (31.4) |
Last 12 months n (%) 23 (3.5) |
During pregnancy n (%) 12 (1.8) |
IPV Current spouse n (%) 13 (2.0) |
IPV Ex-spouse n (%) 134 (20.3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emotional abuse | 176 (26.7) | 123 (18.6) | 107 (16.2) | 17 (2.6) | 9 (1.4) | 9 (1.4) | 110 (16.7) |
| Mild | 161 (24.5) | 111 (16.9) | 94 (14.3) | ||||
| Moderate | 112 (17.1) | 55 (8.4) | 72 (11.0) | ||||
| Severe | 72 (10.9) | 43 (6.5) | 39 (5.9) | ||||
| Physical abuse | 156 (23.6) | 98 (14.8) | 87 (13.2) | 5 (0.8) | 3 (0.5) | 6 (0.9) | 71 (10.8) |
| Mild | 142 (21.6) | 90 (13.7) | 77 (11.7) | ||||
| Moderate | 100 (15.2) | 53 (8.0) | 59 (9.0) | ||||
| Severe | 49 (6.1) | 17 (2.6) | 28 (4.3) | ||||
| Sexual abuse | 215 (32.6) | 139 (21.1) | 139 (21.1) | 4 (0.6) | 1 (0.2) | 2 (0.3) | 58 (8.8) |
| Mild: no genital contact | 179 (27.2) | 104 (15.8) | 114 (17.3) | ||||
| Mild: emotional sexual humiliation | 48 (7.4) | 31 (4.8) | 20 (3.1) | ||||
| Moderate: genital contact | 176 (26.9) | 108 (16.5) | 102 (15.6) | ||||
| Severe: penetration | 141 (21.5) | 70 (10.7) | 92 (14.0) |
*Categories are not mutually exclusive, so the same woman may have reported several types of abuse