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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2022 Sep 3;164:107234. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107234

Table 3a.

Adjusted* risk differences for mental health outcomes for those with a given maltreatment exposure relative to those without the exposure, Project EAT (n = 1782).

Mental health outcomes




Maltreatment exposure Depressive mood Any eating disorder diagnosis (current or past)










N (row %) with outcome RD (95% CI) N (row %) with outcome RD (95% CI)
Maltreatment score 0 136 (11.6%) REF 53 (4.5%) REF
1 80 (22.2%) 0.08 (0.03, 0.14) 15 (4%) 0.01 (− 0.03, 0.04)
2 44 (30.8%) 0.19 (0.10, 0.27) 28 (19.7%) 0.14 (0.06, 0.22)
3 31 (29.7%) 0.12 (0.03, 0.22) 13 (12.5%) 0.08 (0.00, 0.16)
Familial sexual abuse No 262 (15.5%) REF 92 (5.5%) REF
Yes 29 (31.2%) 0.01 (− 0.07, 0.10) 16 (17.1%) 0.10 (0.01, 0.18)
Non-familial sexual abuse No 252 (15.3%) REF 86 (5.2%) REF
Yes 39 (28.7%) 0.10 (0.02, 0.18) 23 (16.4%) 0.08 (0.02, 0.15)
Familial physical abuse No 213 (15.1%) REF 78 (5.6%) REF
Yes 78 (21%) 0.06 (0.01, 0.12) 30 (8.1%) 0.04 (− 0.01, 0.08)
Familial emotional abuse No 226 (14.1%) REF 83 (5.2%) REF
Yes 65 (37.3%) 0.19 (0.12, 0.27) 25 (14.4%) 0.09 (0.03, 0.15)
Emotional neglect No 228 (14.6%) REF 82 (5.2%) REF
Yes 62 (28.7%) 0.12 (0.05, 0.18) 27 (12.3%) 0.07 (0.01, 0.12)
*

Adjusted for age, socioeconomic status, sex, ethnicity/race, and baseline BMI