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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012 Nov 1;69(11):1151–1160. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.2277

Table 1.

Prevalence and co-occurrence of childhood adversities (CAs) in the National Comorbidity Survey Adolescent Supplement (n=6,483)

Prevalence of
individual CAs
Proportion of respondents
with a given CA
who had additional CAs
Mean number of other
CAs among respondents
with specific CAs
Weighted n % SE % SE Mean SE

Parent Death 472 7.3 0.6 73.5 4.4 3.5 0.1
Parent Divorce 1,841 28.4 1.2 70.9 1.7 3.2 0.1
Other Parent Loss 318 4.9 0.6 84.6 2.6 4.2 0.3
Parent Mental Illness 1,011 15.6 0.8 89 1.3 3.8 0.1
Parent Substance 691 10.7 0.7 97.8 0.8 4.2 0.1
Parent Criminal 1,703 26.3 1.1 84.1 2.1 3.6 0.1
Family Violence 545 8.4 0.5 90.2 4.1 4.2 0.1
Physical Abuse 274 4.2 0.5 96.4 1.5 5.1 0.3
Sexual Abuse 282 4.4 0.4 90.3 1.9 3.9 0.2
Emotional Abuse 379 5.9 0.7 83.7 2.6 4.5 0.2
Neglect 145 2.2 0.5 97.9 0.9 5.4 0.3
Economic Adversity 1,050 16.2 1.1 75 2.7 3.7 0.1
Any Adversity 3,781 58.3 1.3 59.7 1.9 3.2 0.1