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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2014 Apr 16;223(1):1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.04.005

Table 1.

Group differences across all collected demographic and clinical variables.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the sample according to both dichotomous and ordinal assault characterizations.

Measure Girls with History of Assault Exposure (n=14) Girls with High Assault Exposure Severity (n=8) Girls with Low Assault Exposure Severity (n=6) Girls with No Assault Exposure (n=16)
Age (y) 15.1(1.1) 15.4 (0.74) 14.7 (1.5) 14.6 (1.1)
Ethnicity 64% Caucasian
21% African-American
7% Biracial
7% Hispanic		 88% Caucasian
0% African-American
13% biracial
0% Hispanic		 33% Caucasian
50% African-American
0% biracial
17% Hispanic		 69% Caucasian
31% African-American
0% biracial
0% Hispanic
Direct Assaults
% Sexually Assaulted
% Physically Assaulted
Age at First Assault Exposure
Age at Most Recent Assault Exposure (y)
Time Since Most Recent Assault Exposure (y)
% Assault(s) Perpetrated by Acquaintance
% Assault(s) Perpetrated by Stranger		 3.8 (2.7)
57%a
100%a
7.4 (3.4)
12.3 (3.0)
2.8 (3.1)

100%
0%		 5.6 (2.0)
100%bc
100%b
6.0 (2.6)
13.6 (2.3)
1.8 (2.7)

100%
0%		 1.3 (0.5)
0%c
100%c
9.3 (3.7)
10.5 (3.1)
4.2 (3.4)

100%
0%		 0 (0)
0%ab
0%abc
n/a
n/a
n/a

n/a
n/a
Current PTSD 21% 38%b 0% 0%b
Past PTSD 36%a 50%b 17% 0%ab
Current GAD 21% 25% 17% 7%
Past GAD 7% 13% 0% 0%
Current MDD 15% 25% 0% 0%
Past MDD 31% 50% 0% 14%
Current Alcohol Abuse 14% 25%b 0% 0%b
Past Alcohol Abuse 29% 50%bc 0%c 0%b
Current Substance Abuse 0% 0% 0% 0%
Past Substance Abuse
Substances Tried		 14%a
2.3 (1.8)a 		13%
2.8 (2.2)b 		17%
1.7 (1.0)c 		0%a
0.2 (0.5)abc
Previous Psychological or Psychiatric Treatment 57% 75%a 33% 25%a
UCLA PTSD Symptoms 25.3 (20.3)a 37.3 (12.2)bc 9.3 (18.0)c 2.1 (4.4)ab
CBCL anxious-depressed 5.9 (5.3)a 8.4 (5.6)bc 2.7 (2.4)c 2.3 (2.4)ab
CBCL aggressive behavior 11.4 (8.7)a 13.0 (6.4)b 9.2 (11.4) 3.1 (3.4)ab
CBCL social problems 3.4 (3.0) 4.3 (2.7)b 2.3 (3.1) 1.8 (1.8)b
Verbal IQ 100.4(11.3) 100.8 (9.3) 99.8 (14.4) 104.6 (19.3)

Note. Matching superscripts between columns for each row indicate significant between-group differences (p <0.05). Values in parentheses indicate SD.