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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2009 May 23;33(6):343–352. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.09.009

Table 1.

Child maltreatment among opioid dependent cases and matched non-opioid dependent controls, stratified by gender#

Male Female

(n=154) Control (n=588) Case Adjusted OR (95%CI) (n=192) Control (n=379) Case Adjusted OR(95%CI)
Sexual abuse (%) 34.4 36.1 0.7 (0.5–1.1) 56.3 71.8 1.2 (0.8–2.0)
 Penetrative (%) 15.6 21.4 1.0 (0.6–1.8) 27.6 56.2 2.0 (1.2–3.2)**
 Contact (%) 9.7 7.3 0.7 (0.3–1.4) 12.0 10.3 1.3 (0.6–2.5)
Among those with sexual abuse: (n=53) (n=212) (n=108) (n=272)
 Mean age at first sexual abuse incident (yrs) 11.5 10.3 t=−2.1* 10.7 9.9 t=−1.8
 Multiple incidents (%) 39.6 47.6 1.3 (0.6–2.9) 38.0 61.4 3.3 (1.8–6.2)***
 Perpetrator known to victim (%) 64.2 67.9 1.3 (0.6–3.0) 65.7 80.1 3.0 (1.5–5.9)***

Physical abuse (%) 36.4 57.5 1.6 (1.0–2.4)* 42.7 58.8 1.1 (0.7–1.7)
Among those with physical abuse: (n=56) (n=338) (n=82) (n=223)
 Mean age at first physical abuse incident (yrs) 7.3 7.8 t=2.0* 7.9 8.0 t=1.2
 Mean duration (yrs) 5.8 5.8 t=−1.0 5.3 6.1 t= 0.3
 Multiple perpetrators (%) 32.1 34.3 1.3 (0.7–2.6) 35.4 35.4 0.7 (0.4–1.4)

Emotional abuse (%) 33.8 46.4 1.2 (0.8–1.9) 47.9 59.9 0.9 (0.6–1.4)
 Frequent (%) 11.7 26.5 1.9 (1.0–3.4)* 27.1 39.8 1.0 (0.6–1.6)

Neglect (%) 57.8 68.0 1.2 (0.8–1.8) 71.4 77.6 0.7 (0.4–1.3)
 Frequent (%) 29.9 43.9 1.3 (0.8–2.0) 40.1 58.0 1.1 (0.7–1.8)
Physical neglect (%) 9.1 12.1 0.9 (0.4–1.7) 10.4 13.7 0.5 (0.3–1.1)
 Frequent (%) 3.9 7.5 1.0 (0.4–2.7) 5.7 8.7 0.6 (0.2–1.4)
Emotional neglect (%) 57.1 65.5 1.1 (0.7–1.7) 70.3 75.5 0.7 (0.4–1.2)
 Frequent (%) 28.6 41.5 1.3 (0.8–2.0) 37.0 55.7 1.2 (0.8–1.9)
Supervisory neglect (%) 22.1 34.9 1.3 (0.8–2.1) 31.8 43.8 0.8 (0.5–1.3)
 Frequent (%) 11.0 20.2 1.4 (0.8–2.6) 20.3 29.3 0.8 (0.4–1.3)
***

p<.001

**

p<.01

*

p<.05

#

Multiple regression analysis controlling for age, education, employment, alcohol dependence, cannabis dependence, and other illicit dependence