Table 1. Socio-demographic and reproductive characteristics of the study population according to types of childhood abuse in Lima, Peru.
Characteristics | All participants (N = 2970) |
No abuse (N = 839) |
Physical abuse only (N = 1148) |
Sexual abuse only (N = 233) |
Physical and sexual abuse (N = 750) |
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Age (years) a | 28.1 ± 6.3 | 27.7 ± 6.1 | 28.1 ± 6.4 | 28.2 ± 6.5 | 28.7 ± 6.3 | 0.02 | |||||
Age (years) | |||||||||||
18-20 | 162 | 5.5 | 39 | 4.6 | 67 | 5.8 | 15 | 6.4 | 41 | 5.5 | 0.01 |
20-29 | 1662 | 56.0 | 514 | 61.3 | 635 | 55.3 | 129 | 55.4 | 384 | 51.2 | |
30-34 | 610 | 20.5 | 155 | 18.5 | 235 | 20.5 | 40 | 17.2 | 180 | 24.0 | |
≥35 | 536 | 18.0 | 131 | 15.6 | 211 | 18.4 | 49 | 21.0 | 145 | 19.3 | |
Education (years) | |||||||||||
≤6 | 127 | 4.3 | 37 | 4.4 | 49 | 4.3 | 5 | 2.1 | 36 | 4.8 | 0.66 |
7-12 | 1625 | 54.7 | 469 | 55.9 | 624 | 54.4 | 125 | 53.6 | 407 | 54.3 | |
>12 | 1211 | 40.8 | 331 | 39.5 | 473 | 41.2 | 101 | 43.3 | 306 | 40.8 | |
Mestizo ethnicity | 2228 | 75.0 | 641 | 76.4 | 854 | 74.4 | 180 | 77.3 | 553 | 73.7 | 0.45 |
Married/living with a partner | 2396 | 80.7 | 691 | 82.4 | 930 | 81.0 | 179 | 76.8 | 596 | 79.5 | 0.21 |
Employed | 1370 | 46.1 | 383 | 45.6 | 515 | 44.9 | 113 | 48.5 | 359 | 47.9 | 0.53 |
Access to basic foods | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Hard | 1475 | 49.7 | 350 | 41.7 | 560 | 48.8 | 127 | 54.5 | 438 | 58.4 | <0.0001 |
Not very hard | 1493 | 50.3 | 489 | 58.3 | 586 | 51.0 | 106 | 45.5 | 312 | 41.6 | |
Nulliparous | 1446 | 48.7 | 452 | 53.9 | 547 | 47.6 | 116 | 49.8 | 331 | 44.1 | 0.001 |
Planned pregnancy | 1225 | 41.2 | 368 | 43.9 | 482 | 42.0 | 92 | 39.5 | 283 | 37.7 | 0.09 |
Gestational age at interview a | 9.2 ± 3.5 | 9.3 ± 3.4 | 9.3 ± 3.5 | 9.3 ± 3.3 | 9.2 ± 3.6 | 0.94 | |||||
Early pregnancy body mass index (kg/m2) | |||||||||||
<18.5 | 59 | 2.0 | 21 | 2.5 | 23 | 2.0 | 4 | 1.7 | 11 | 1.5 | 0.49 |
18.5-24.9 | 1425 | 48.0 | 385 | 45.9 | 563 | 49.0 | 121 | 51.9 | 356 | 47.5 | |
25-29.9 | 1087 | 36.6 | 323 | 38.5 | 414 | 36.1 | 77 | 33.0 | 273 | 36.4 | |
≥30 | 366 | 12.3 | 93 | 11.1 | 143 | 12.5 | 26 | 11.2 | 104 | 13.9 | |
Intimate partner violence b | 1090 | 36.7 | 202 | 24.1 | 383 | 33.4 | 101 | 43.3 | 404 | 53.9 | <0.0001 |
Due to missing data, percentages may not add up to 100%.
mean ± SD (standard deviation)
Lifetime intimate partner violence
For continuous variables, P-value was calculated using the ANOVA; for categorical variables, P-value was calculated using the Chi-square test.