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Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2007 May;31(5):517–530. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2007.01.003

Table 3.

Childhood Physical Abuse and Extreme Ill Health^a,^b

	O.R.	C.I. (95%)
Number of Medical Diagnoses (N=2,836)
Abuse	1.84	(1.23, 2.75) ^**
Sex	1.82	(1.32, 2.51) ^**
Age	1.06	(1.04, 1.09) ^**
Father's Education	1.00	(0.95, 1.05)
Farm Background	0.75	(0.49, 1.15)
Marital Problems	1.38	(0.95, 2.00)
Number of Physical Symptoms (N=2,830)
Abuse	1.32	(0.90, 1.93)
Sex	1.37	(1.04, 1.80) ^*
Age	0.99	(0.97, 1.01)
Father's Education	0.95	(0.91, 0.99) ^*
Farm Background	0.93	(0.65, 1.31)
Marital Problems	1.42	(1.02, 1.97) ^*
Depression (CES-D) (N=2,813)
Abuse	1.61	(1.15, 2.27) ^**
Sex	1.35	(1.05, 1.74) ^*
Age	0.96	(0.94, 0.98) ^**
Father's Education	0.96	(0.92, 1.00) ^*
Farm Background	0.96	(0.69, 1.33)
Marital Problems	1.66	(1.23, 2.24) ^**
Anger (N=2,813)
Abuse	2.02	(1.44, 2.84) ^**
Sex	0.98	(0.76, 1.26)
Age	0.93	(0.91, 0.95) ^**
Father's Education	1.00	(0.97, 1.04)
Farm Background	0.73	(0.51, 1.04)
Marital Problems	1.11	(0.81, 1.53)
Anxiety (N=2,812)
Abuse	1.78	(1.27, 2.50) ^**
Sex	1.65	(1.28, 2.12) ^**
Age	0.94	(0.93, 0.96) ^**
Father's Education	0.98	(0.94, 1.02)
Farm Background	0.87	(0.63, 1.21)
Marital Problems	0.96	(0.70, 1.33)

significant at .05 level;

^**

significant at .01 level.

More health problems than 90% of the sample.

Models control for age, sex and the trimmed set of family background and childhood adversity variables.