Table 3.
Number and Percentage of Different Symptoms and Frequent Symptoms During the Past Year among Female Adolescents Stratified by their Lifetime Experiences of Sexual Violence and Other Violence Exposures over the Past Year (n=8531)
Number of Different Symptoms# | Number of Frequent Symptoms§ | |||||||
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High (12 – 16) | Medium (9 – 11) | Low (0 – 8) | p-value | High (≥ 4) | Medium (2 – 3) | Low (0 – 1) | p-value | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
Lifetime Exposure to Violence | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | ||||||
Both Sexual* and Non-Sexual Violence† | 187 (46) | 138 (35) | 79 (19) | 221 (56) | 121 (30) | 62 (14) | ||
Sexual Violence Only* | 96 (39) | 77 (35) | 61 (26) | 116 (48) | 59 (29) | 59 (22) | ||
Non-Sexual Violence Only † | 1047 (34) | 1062 (36) | 955 (31) | 1307 (42) | 832 (27) | 925 (31) | ||
No Violence | 1272 (27) | 1722 (36) | 1835 (37) | 1399 (29) | 1430 (30) | 2000 (41) |
Note: All percentages are adjusted for sampling probability; sample sizes are unweighted.
Sexual violence is defined as having ever been physically forced to have sexual intercourse against your will.
Non-sexual violence includes at least one or more of the following types of violence in the past 12 months: participating in a physical fight; having a knife or gun pulled on you, being jumped, shot, or stabbed; and observing a shooting or stabbing.
E ach adolescent was classified into one of three mutually exclusive symptom groups dependent upon the total number of different types of the 16 symptoms experienced during the past year: few symptoms (0 to 8); some symptoms (9 to 11); and many symptoms (12 to 16).
Adolescents also were classified into one of three mutually exclusive groups dependent upon the number of different symptoms that they experienced at least once per week: few frequent symptoms (0–1); some frequent symptoms (2–3); or many frequent symptoms (4 or more).