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Frequency of abuse and neglect when applying severity cut-off scores established by Bernstein et al. (2003).
| CTQ scale | Emotional abuse | Emotional neglect | Physical abuse | Physical neglect | Sexual abuse |
| Severity | |||||
| None to minimal, % (n) | 58.2(39) | 58.2(39) | 86.6(58) | 65.7(44) | 89.6(60) |
| Slight to moderate, % (n) | 35.8(24) | 28.4(19) | 7.5(5) | 16.4(11) | 4.5(3) |
| Moderate to severe, % (n) | 1.5(1) | 10.4(7) | 6.0(4) | 11.9(8) | 3.0(2) |
| Severe to extreme, % (n) | 4.5(3) | 3.0(2) | −(0) | 6.0(4) | 3.0(2) |
