Table 2.
Interpersonal violence among individuals who often experienced hunger during childhood in the United States.
| Often Experienced Frequent Hunger? (“How Often Did a Parent or Other Adult Living in Your Home Make You Go Hungry or Not Prepare You Regular Meals?”) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (Never/Almost Never/Sometimes) |
Yes (Fairly Often/Often) |
Unadjusted | Adjusted | |||||
| (n = 33,991, 98.84%) | (n = 436, 1.16%) | |||||||
| % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | AOR | 95% CI | |
| Violent Antisocial Behavior | ||||||||
| Any violence | ||||||||
| No | 85.41 | (85.12–85.69) | 63.02 | (60.44–65.54) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Yes | 14.59 | (14.31–14.88) | 36.98 | 34.46–39.56) | 3.62 | (3.20–4.10) | 2.08 | (1.81–2.38) |
| Get into a lot of fights that you started? | ||||||||
| No | 97.11 | (96.99–97.22) | 85.82 | (83.31–88.01) | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 2.89 | (2.78–3.01) | 14.14 | (11.99–16.69) | 5.55 | (4.56–6.75) | 2.18 | (1.77–2.68) |
| Hit someone so hard that you injure them or they had to see a doctor? | ||||||||
| No | 93.79 | (93.60–93.98) | 80.16 | (77.67–82.44) | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 6.21 | (6.02–6.40) | 19.84 | (17.56–22.33) | 3.74 | (3.19–4.38) | 2.21 | (1.85–2.64) |
| Use a weapon like a stick, knife, or gun in a fight? | ||||||||
| No | 97.27 | (97.17–97.37) | 86.85 | (84.57–88.84) | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 2.73 | (2.63–2.83) | 13.15 | (11.16–15.43) | 5.40 | (4.48–6.50) | 2.34 | (1.90–2.88) |
| Physically hurt another person in any way on purpose? | ||||||||
| No | 94.69 | (94.51–94.87) | 82.94 | (80.90–84.80) | 1.00 | |||
| Yes | 5.31 | (5.13–5.49) | 17.06 | (15.20–19.10) | 3.67 | (3.18–4.24) | 2.06 | (1.79–2.38) |
Odds ratios adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, household income, education level, region of the United States, urbanicity, antisocial parental history, parental drug abuse history, and clinical, personality disorders, and alcohol and drug use disorders. Odds ratios and confidence intervals in bold are significant at p < 0.05 or lower.