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. 2015 Dec 22;5(12):e010112. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010112

Table 1.

Overall prevalence of harms suffered as a result of others’ drinking in the past 12 months, stratified by age and sex

Aggressive harms from others’ drinking
Other harms from others’ drinking
n Physically assaulted Sexually harassed or assaulted Verbally insulted Any aggressive harm† Unintended injury Traffic incident Kept awake Property damaged Any other harm‡ All harms§
All 63 725 7.40 7.71 39.40 43.71 7.73 0.93 29.29 12.01 38.27 59.54
Female
 Age (years)
  18–24 15 461 5.67 17.73 40.70 48.63 11.84 0.94 36.45 13.41 46.68 66.75
  25–29 7128 3.72 13.20 34.22 40.31 6.10 0.74 33.53 8.00 39.28 58.85
  30–34 3532 2.35 8.75 27.66 31.91 3.14 0.54 31.74 7.11 35.31 50.96
  All 26 121 4.69 15.28 37.17 44.10 9.10 0.84 35.02 11.08 43.12 62.46
  χ2 91.724 212.131 245.670 383.406 369.300 6.719 37.624 210.441 210.581 359.960
  p Value *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Male
 Age (years)
  18–24 20 581 11.88 2.76 45.72 48.74 9.08 1.17 26.07 15.30 38.03 62.43
  25–29 10 593 7.06 2.26 38.45 40.35 4.62 0.90 25.68 10.35 33.03 55.00
  30–34 6430 4.67 1.74 29.83 31.60 3.00 0.65 22.22 7.96 27.96 45.89
  All 37 604 9.21 2.45 40.95 43.45 6.78 0.93 25.30 12.65 34.90 57.51
  χ2 388.955 23.715 549.649 643.196 395.358 14.649 39.487 309.567 241.243 585.957
  p Value *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Male vs female
 χ2 457.136 3570.041 92.912 2.678 115.810 4.702 702.440 36.011 441.058 156.912
 p Value¶ *** *** *** NS *** NS *** *** *** ***

*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.

†Any aggressive harm includes any respondent answering yes to physical assault, sexual harassment or assault, or verbally insulted.

‡Other harms include unintentional injury, traffic incident, being kept awake and having property damaged.

§All harms include any respondent reporting one or more of the seven harm categories.

¶For males vs females p values compare differences in overall prevalence between males and females.

NS, not significant.