. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 12.

Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2014 Jul 2;38(9):1560–1568. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.06.010

Table 1.

Comparison of patients with and without lifetime history of sexual abuse

	History of sexual abuse	No history of sexual abuse	p value
Age (years)	41.5±9.7	44.2±9.9	0.058
Gender (females; %)	65.6	19.1	<0.000005
Education (number of classes completed)	12.0±3.1	12.1±2.5	0.76
Employment (unemployed; %)	62.3	62.3	0.99
Lifetime history of physical abuse (%)	70.5	37.2	<0.000005
Family history of psychiatric problems (%)	32.8	17.6	0.006
Family history of alcohol problems (%)	75.4	58.5	0.01
Suicide attempt or completed suicide in the family (%)	25.4	13.0	0.003
Social support (MOSSSS)	55.1±19.1	62.5±17.7	0.004
Severity of alcohol dependence (MAST)	32.26±10.3	34.8±9.1	0.05
Economic situation (enough money for needs, %)	36.7	37.3	0.93

MOSSSS — Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey, MAST — Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test. The values are presented in percentages, and means and standard deviations (mean±SD). For non-parametric variables, median and quartiles (25;75) are presented; p-values<0.05 are bold.