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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2011 Aug;62(8):959–962. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.62.8.959

Appendix Material: Table 3.

Incidence of psychiatric disorders by type and frequency of intimate partner violent act

Any mood disorder (n=544) Any anxiety disorder (n=819) Any substance use disorder (n=1,552)
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Push, grave, shove
Never 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Once 1.8 1.0 3.1 2.2 1.5 3.2 2.3 1.7 3.1
2–3 times 3.4 2.1 5.5 2.6 1.7 4.0 2.8 2.1 3.7
Once or more in a month 4.6 2.3 9.3 4.6 2.4 8.7 3.6 2.1 6.3
Slap, kick, bite, hit
Never 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Once 3.8 2.1 6.8 2.5 1.6 4.0 2.2 1.5 3.2
2–3 times 3.5 1.8 6.8 2.3 1.3 4.1 3.5 2.3 5.4
Once or more in a month 8.0 3.4 18.8 6.6 3.0 14.6 4.5 2.1 9.7
Threaten with a weapon
Never 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Once 1.5 0.5 4.7 2.4 1.1 5.2 2.5 1.4 4.2
2–3 times 2.7 0.6 12.2 4.4 1.5 13.4 8.7 3.0 25.7
Once or more in a month 8.9 1.6 48.7 7.5 1.7 33.2 3.5 0.7 16.4
Cut, bruise
Never 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Once 2.8 1.2 6.3 2.4 1.3 4.5 2.4 1.5 4.1
2–3 times 6.7 2.7 16.8 7.7 3.1 19.1 6.4 2.9 13.8
Once or more in a month 7.7 2.4 25.1 8.1 2.8 23.6 4.6 1.7 12.2
Force to have sex
Never 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Once 1.2 0.3 4.1 1.6 0.7 3.8 1.0 0.4 2.5
2–3 times 4.1 1.2 13.2 4.9 2.1 11.4 1.9 0.7 4.9
Once or more in a month 2.2 0.5 9.7 0.8 0.2 2.7 2.5 1.0 6.5
Injure enough to get medical care
Never 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Once or more 1.7 0.5 5.1 3.3 1.8 6.0 2.5 1.3 4.8

Respondents were asked the frequency of the acts during the previous year (1) never, 2) once, 3) two or three times, 4) once a month, or 5) more than once a month). To minimize the presence of sparse cells in the statistical analyses, the last two categories were collapsed for all analyses, except for “having been injured enough to get medical care” in which case the categories were dichotomized (never versus once or more).