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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2010 Oct 12;34(11):833–841. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.05.002

Table 5.

Adjusted ORs for the relationship between childhood adversity and depression & substance abuse in men*#**

Depression Alcohol abuse Drug abuse
AOR (95%CI) p value AOR (95%CI) p value AOR (95%CI) p value
Physical hardship :
none
1.00
some 1.16 (0.84, 1.61) 0.35
often 1.48 (1.02, 2.15) 0.04
Sexual abuse: none 1.00
some 1.19 (0.81, 1.75) 0.38
often 3.68 (2.00, 6.77) <0.0001
Emotional neglect:
none
1.00 1.00
some 2.34 (1.39, 3.94) 0.001 1.48 (1.11, 1.97) 0.007
often 3.41 (1.87, 6.20) <0.0001 1.98 (1.37, 2.88) <0.0001
Emotional abuse: none 1.00
some 1.53 (1.12, 2.09) 0.007
often 1.48 (1.02, 2.15) 0.04
*

all models were adjusted for age, education, socio-economic status and parental loss.

#

models for suicidality and incident HIV and HSV2 are not shown due to lack of association with any adversity dimensions, individually or the composite scale

**

Physical punishment was not associated with any of the outcomes in men