Table 1.
Sample characteristics of participants by intimate partner violence screening protocol
| Variable | Victims | Non- victims |
Total | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| N=109 | N=1329 | N=1,438 | ||
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| Race/ethnicity (%) | ||||
| White | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.645 |
| African American | 54.1 | 50.7 | 50.9 | |
| Hispanic | 40.4 | 40.3 | 40.3 | |
| Other | 4.6 | 7.6 | 7.4 | |
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| Age (mean, years) | 27.1 | 25.9 | 26.0 | 0.070 |
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| Educational level (%) | 0.703 | |||
| Some high school or less | 47.3 | 44.8 | 45.0 | |
| High school completed | 33.8 | 37.7 | 37.5 | |
| Some college | 9.5 | 10.9 | 10.8 | |
| College completed | 9.5 | 6.5 | 6.7 | |
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| Employed (including part-time) (%) | 25.2 | 28.6 | 28.4 | 0.265 |
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| Marital status (%) | 0.688 | |||
| Single/widowed/divorced | 77.1 | 77.5 | 77.5 | |
| Married | 19.3 | 20.1 | 20.1 | |
| Separated | 3.7 | 2.4 | 2.5 | |
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| Medicare/Medicaid (%) | 0.309 | |||
| Commercial fee for service | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| Commercial HMO | 1.9 | 4.6 | 4.4 | |
| Medicaid or charity care | 67.6 | 67.6 | 67.6 | |
| Medicaid HMO | 25.7 | 25.1 | 25.1 | |
| Medicare | 4.8 | 2.2 | 2.4 | |
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| Living arrangement | 0.972 | |||
| Participant’s house/apartment | 77.5 | 77.1 | 77.1 | |
| Someone else’s house/apartment | 21.6 | 21.5 | 21.5 | |
| An institution | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |
| Other | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
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| Planned pregnancy (%) | 19.6 | 25.1 | 24.7 | 0.227 |
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| Current use of alcohol (%) | 7.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 0.012 |
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| Weight at first prenatal visit (%) | 163.5 | 160.8 | 161.0 | 0.534 |
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| Comorbidity (%) | ||||
| 0 | 42.2 | 56.1 | 55.0 | 0.035 |
| 1 | 39.4 | 29.6 | 30.3 | |
| 2 | 11.9 | 10.5 | 10.6 | |
| >=3 | 6.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | |