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Table 3 Determinants of sexual abuse among the responding high school students

From: Prevalence and determinants of child maltreatment among high school students in Southern China: A large scale school based survey

  

Sexual abuse

Crude OR

Adjusted OR#

  

No

Yes

(95%CI)

(95%CI)

Gender

Male

3249 (99.1%)

28 (0.9%)

2.86

1.97

 

Female (refcat)

3275 (99.7%)

10 (0.3%)

(1.37–5.88)*

(0.91–4.24)

Age

14 or below

3797 (99.4%)

23 (0.6%)

1.22

1.62

 

15 or above (refcat)

2631 (99.5%)

13 (0.5%)

(0.62–2.44)

(0.74–3.57)

Father's education level

Primary or below

350 (98.0%)

7 (2.0%)

3.85

3.24

 

Secondary or above (refcat)

6069 (99.5%)

31 (0.5%)

(1.72–9.09)*

(1.03–10.21)*

Mother's education level

Primary or below

692 (99.3%)

5 (0.7%)

1.27

1.69

 

Secondary or above (refcat)

5749 (99.4%)

33 (0.6%)

(0.49–3.22)

(0.46–6.25)

Place of origin

Guangdong

5169 (99.5%)

24 (0.5%)

0.67

0.89

 

Non-Guangdong (refcat)

871 (99.3%)

6 (0.7%)

(0.28–1.65)

(0.34–2.38)

Housing type

Own house

5137 (99.5%)

24 (0.5%)

0.50

0.61

 

Rented house/institution hostel/others (refcat)

1390 (99.1%)

13 (0.9%)

(0.25–0.98)*

(0.27–1.37)

  1. * significant at 0.05 level
  2. # adjusted odd ratios was calculated in logistic regression model with the control for other risk factors listed in the table