Table 1.
Demographics, Breastfeeding Influences, and Abuse Histories of Women Who Did and Did Not Self-Identify Experiencing Childhood Sexual Abuse
| Independent Variable | Self-Identified Childhood Sexual Abuse
|
Did Not Self-Identify Childhood Sexual Abuse
|
|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | |
| Marital status (n = 1051)* | ||
| Married | 50 (70) | 796 (81) |
| Divorced/separated or never married | 21 (30) | 183 (19) |
| Age (n = 1053) | ||
| < 25 | 28 (39) | 314 (32) |
| 25–29 | 24 (34) | 303 (31) |
| 30–34 | 16 (22) | 241 (25) |
| 35+ | 4 (5) | 123 (13) |
| Race-ethnicity (n = 1056) | ||
| Caucasian (non-Hispanic) | 54 (76) | 717 (73) |
| African American | 7 (10) | 136 (14) |
| Hispanic | 11 (15) | 131 (13) |
| Region (n = 1056) | ||
| Northeast | 15 (21) | 195 (20) |
| North central | 15 (21) | 246 (25) |
| South | 24 (33) | 334 (34) |
| West | 18 (25) | 210 (21) |
| Education (n = 1054) | ||
| < High school | 10 (14) | 150 (15) |
| High school grad | 28 (39) | 314 (32) |
| Some college | 25 (35) | 285 (29) |
| College grad+ | 8 (11) | 232 (24) |
| Household income (n = 961)** | ||
| < 20,000 | 29 (41) | 235 (26) |
| 20,000–39,999 | 23 (33) | 260 (29) |
| ≥40,000 | 18 (26) | 397 (45) |
| Government assist (n = 1050)** | ||
| Yes | 46 (64) | 432 (44) |
| No | 26 (36) | 546 (56) |
| Initiated breastfeeding (n = 1049)* | ||
| Yes | 56 (77) | 633 (65) |
| No | 16 (23) | 344 (35) |
| Breastfeeding duration (n = 688; includes only women who initiated) | ||
| < 1 month | 15 (27) | 116 (18) |
| > = 1 month | 41 (73) | 517 (82) |
| Parity (n = 1056) | ||
| Primiparous | 29 (40) | 417 (42) |
| Multiparous | 43 (60) | 567 (58) |
| Wanted pregnancy (n = 1056)† | ||
| Yes | 33 (45) | 661 (67) |
| No | 39 (55) | 323 (33) |
| Prenatal care (n = 1044)* | ||
| 1st trimester | 62 (86) | 909 (94) |
| After 1st trimester or did not receive prenatal care | 10 (14) | 63 (6) |
| Attended childbirth classes (n = 1054) | ||
| Yes | 46 (64) | 705 (72) |
| No | 26 (36) | 277 (28) |
| Childhood emotional abuse (n = 1046)† | ||
| Yes | 54 (76) | 219 (22) |
| No | 17 (24) | 756 (78) |
| Childhood physical abuse (n = 1050)† | ||
| Yes | 44 (61) | 70 (7) |
| No | 28 (39) | 908 (93) |
| Want to raise† children differently (n = 1050) | ||
| Same way I was raised | 4 (19) | 468 (48) |
| Raise differently | 58 (80) | 464 (47) |
| Same in some ways; different in other ways | 1 (1) | 47 (5) |
All numbers and percentages reported in Table 1 are weighted. Cell numbers and percentages are rounded to the nearest integer.
*
P < .05, chi-square test.
**
P < .01, chi square test.
†
P < .001, chi-square test.