Table 1.

Background characteristics of adult primary care patients, by history of assault^a

	All patients (N=977)		History of assault (N=241)		No history of assault (N=736)
Characteristic	N	%	N	%	N	%	χ 2	df	p
Gender							3.4	1	.06
Female	683	70	157	65	526	71
Male	294	30	84	35	210	29
Age							9.3	3	.03
18–44	267	27	60	25	207	28
45–54	296	30	89	37	207	28
55–64	271	28	67	28	204	28
65–70	143	15	25	10	118	16
Education							3.4	2	.19
Up to 8th grade	363	38	78	33	285	39
Some or all of high school	395	41	103	43	292	40
Some or all of college	210	22	58	24	152	21
Annual household income							.5	2	.76
≤$11,999	730	75	182	76	548	75
$12,000–$17,999	136	14	30	13	106	15
≥$18,000	103	11	26	11	77	11
Years in United States							6.8	2	.009
0–10	143	15	23	10	120	17
>10	821	85	216	90	605	83
Country of birth							21.0	2	<.001
Dominican Republic	627	64	128	53	499	68
United States	189	19	69	29	120	16
All other countries	161	16	44	18	117	16
Race or ethnicity							9.7	2	.008
Hispanic	810	83	184	76	626	85
Non-Hispanic black	124	13	42	17	82	11
Non-Hispanic white or other	43	4	15	6	28	4
Marital status							3.3	3	.35
Married or cohabiting	308	32	66	28	242	33
Separated or divorced	425	44	113	47	312	43
Widowed	69	7	15	6	54	7
Never married	172	18	46	19	126	17
Nonassaultive traumab							61.1	1	<.001
Any	654	68	211	89	443	61
None	305	32	27	11	278	39

^aNot all data were available for all persons.

^bPositive if respondents indicated that any nonassaultive trauma event from the Life Events Checklist ever “happened to me” or “[I] witnessed it.”