Table 1.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Questionnaire scores and comparison with normative sample

ACE score	Current sample (N = 151), %	Normative samplea (N = 7970), %	t
0	9.3	38.0	7.22b
1	13.2	26.0	3.56b
2	13.9	15.9	0.67
3	15.2	9.5	2.36b
4 +	48.3	12.5	10.86b

^aNormative sample from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention⁸ based on 1998 male data from Felitti et al.³

^bp < 0.0001.