Table 4.
Adverse events experienced prior to age 16 and sexuality groupsa (N = 7,371)
| Adverse event prior to 16 | Level | N | Population prevalence of adverse event %b (SE) | Sexuality groups | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heterosexual | Bisexual (n = 74) OR (95% CI) | Homosexual (n = 76) OR (95% CI) | ||||||
| No same-sex behavior (n = 6857) %c (SE) | Same-sex sexual experience only (n = 281) OR (95% CI) | Same-sex sexual experience and relationship (n = 83) OR (95% CI) | ||||||
| Beaten at home | Yes | 929 | 6.2 (0.3) | 88.4 (1.4) | 1.7 (1.1, 2.4) | 2.8 (1.5, 5.3) | 2.1 (1.1,4.0) | 2.2 (0.9, 5.4) |
| Testd | F = 6.0, df = 4 p = .0004 | |||||||
| Other violence in the home | Yes | 1346 | 10.6 (0.5) | 90.7 (1.0) | 1.2 (0.8, 1.7) | 2.1 (1.1, 3.8) | 2.4 (1.2, 4.7) | 1.7 (0.9, 3.3) |
| Testd | F = 3.4, df = 4, p = .008 | |||||||
| Rape | Yes | 588 | 3.9 (0.2) | 84.7 (1.8) | 2.5 (1.6, 3.7) | 4.4 (2.3, 8.3) | 3.7 (2.0, 7.0) | 1.8 (0.8, 4.2) |
| Testd | F = 12.7, df = 4, p <.0001 | |||||||
| Sexual assault | Yes | 923 | 7.7 (0.4) | 82.6 (1.6) | 3.7 (2.7, 5.1) | 5.0 (2.6, 9.5) | 3.1 (1.6, 6.0) | 2.7 (1.4, 5.1) |
| Testd | F = 23.8, df = 4, p <.0001 | |||||||
| Other adverse event | Yes | 2689 | 33.2 (0.9) | 91.6 (0.6) | 1.5 (1.1, 2.0) | 1.8 (1.0, 3.1) | 1.6 (0.9, 2.9) | 1.1 (0.6, 1.9) |
| Testd | F = 3.1, df = 4, p = .01 | |||||||
| Cumulated adverse event scoree | 0 | 5096 | 75.0 (0.6) | 94.8 (0.4) | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 1 | 1258 | 15.2 (0.5) | 90.0 (1.1) | 1.6 (1.1, 2.3) | 3.0 (1.4, 6.2) | 2.5 (1.1, 5.3) | 2.8 (1.4, 5.5) | |
| 2 | 659 | 6.7 (0.4) | 89.5 (1.5) | 2.1 (1.3, 3.3) | 3.4 (1.5, 7.5) | 2.4 (1.0, 5.6) | 1.2 (0.4, 3.8) | |
| 3+ | 358 | 3.0 (0.2) | 80.2 (2.6) | 3.7 (2.4, 5.9) | 8.7 (4.0, 19.0) | 6.2 (2.7, 13.9) | 3.8 (1.5, 9.5) | |
| Testd | F = 7.3, df = 12, p <.0001 | |||||||
| Overall | 94.8 (0.4) | |||||||
Modelled using multinomial logistic regression with sexuality as the outcome and heterosexuals with no same-sex sexual experience as the reference group, using the correlate, 4 age groups (16–29/30–44/45–59/60+), sex and age by sex, among those who completed Part 2of the interview which contained questions on adverse events
Percentage is the percentage of the population at each level of the covariate, namely the prevalence of an event or adverse event count (N = 12,885)
Percentage is the percentage in the reference category (heterosexual, no same-sex sexual experience) for each level of the childhood correlate, produced as a predicted marginal from the model
Test provides the overall significance of the covariate in the model with age, sex and age by sex
The cumulated adverse event score is a count of the number of types of adverse events experienced before age 16, as listed above