TABLE 2.
Characteristics and unadjusted odds ratios (ORs) of Gulf War–era veterans and military sexual assault (MSA), stratified by sex assigned at birth
| Characteristics | Female veterans |
Association with MSA | Male Veterans |
Association with MSA | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSA (n = 100) |
No MSA (n = 142 |
MSA (n = 32) |
No MSA (n = 850) |
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| n | % | n | % | OR | 95% CI | n | % | n | % | OR | 95% CI | |
| Age | 0.95 | [0.91, 0.99] * | 0.96 | [0.91, 1.02] | ||||||||
| Race | ||||||||||||
| Black | 28 | 28.0 | 35 | 24.6 | 0.53 | [0.24, 1.20] | 11 | 34.4 | 159 | 18.7 | 0.35 | [0.14, 0.89] * |
| Other | 15 | 15.0 | 13 | 9.2 | 0.69 | [0.28, 1.69] | 7 | 21.9 | 99 | 11.6 | 0.98 | [0.37, 2.61] |
| White | 56 | 56.0 | 91 | 64.1 | 14 | 43.8 | 565 | 66.5 | ||||
| Ethnicity | ||||||||||||
| Hispanic | 13 | 13.0 | 9 | 6.3 | 2.20 | [0.90, 5.37] | 4 | 12.5 | 73 | 8.6 | 1.56 | [0.53, 4.57] |
| Non-Hispanic | 86 | 86.0 | 131 | 92.3 | 27 | 84.4 | 766 | 90.1 | ||||
| Sexual minority status | ||||||||||||
| Heterosexual | 94 | 94.0 | 127 | 89.4 | 0.52 | [0.18, 1.51] | 29 | 90.6 | 825 | 97.1 | 4.49 | [1.26, 16.04] * |
| Sexual minority | 5 | 5.0 | 13 | 9.2 | 3 | 9.4 | 19 | 2.2 | ||||
| Marital status | ||||||||||||
| Married or living together | 48 | 48.0 | 84 | 59.1 | 22 | 68.7 | 670 | 78.8 | ||||
| Married but separated or divorced |
40 | 40.0 | 39 | 27.4 | 1.12 | [0.49, 3.02] | 7 | 21.9 | 121 | 14.2 | 0.62 | [0.14, 2.75] |
| Widowed | 3 | 3.0 | 2 | 1.4 | 2.18 | [0.84, 5.63] | 1 | 3.1 | 17 | 2.0 | 1.10 | [0.22, 5.52] |
| Single, never married | 8 | 8.0 | 17 | 12.0 | 3.19 | [0.44, 23.01] | 2 | 6.3 | 38 | 4.5 | 1.12 | [0.10, 13.18] |
| Rank | ||||||||||||
| Enlisted | 74 | 74.0 | 92 | 64.8 | 1.38 | [0.67, 2.85] | 24 | 75.0 | 598 | 70.4 | 1.41 | [0.48, 4.11] |
| Officer | 26 | 26.0 | 50 | 35.2 | 8 | 25.0 | 252 | 29.6 | ||||
| Current service-connected disability |
93 | 93.0 | 111 | 78.2 | 4.19 | [1.54, 11.38] ** | 25 | 78.1 | 647 | 76.1 | 1.59 | [0.55, 4.64] |
| Current VA service user | 77 | 77.0 | 102 | 71.8 | 1.31 | [0.73, 2.37] | 29 | 90.6 | 586 | 68.9 | 4.36 | [1.31, 14.42] * |
| Deployment status during Gulf war | ||||||||||||
| Deployed | 22 | 22.0 | 26 | 18.3 | 1.19 | [0.63, 2.26] | 14 | 43.8 | 382 | 44.9 | 0.97 | [0.47, 2.00] |
| Did not deploy | 78 | 78.0 | 110 | 80.9 | 17 | 53.1 | 451 | 53.1 | ||||
| Gulf War illness | 10 | 10.0 | 89 | 62.7 | 2.12 | [0.78, 5.77] | 7 | 21.9 | 85 | 10.0 | 2.55 | [1.07, 6.09] * |
| NBC exposure | 68 | 68.0 | 86 | 60.6 | 1.12 | [0.61, 2.07] | 26 | 81.3 | 701 | 82.5 | 0.92 | [0.31, 2.69] |
| Combat exposure | 1.08 | [0.99, 1.18] | 1.10 | [1.04, 1.16] *** | ||||||||
Note: The remaining percentages in each cell are missing data. Odds ratios are considered statistically significant if the confidence interval does not contain 1.0.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.