Table 4 The association between CSA and mental health problems [OR (95% CI), N = 3180]

From: The association between child sexual abuse and mental health in Chinese vocational high school students

Group

Anxiety symptoms

Depressive symptoms

Total

Boys

Girls

Total

Boys

Girls

No CSA

ref.

ref.

ref.

ref.

ref.

ref.

Verbal/visual CSA

1.12 (0.83–1.52)

1.34 (0.90–2.01)

1.09 (0.66–1.78)

1.13 (0.88–1.45)

1.30 (0.92–1.83)

1.07 (0.89–1.29)

Physical CSA

1.98 (1.44–2.72)

2.21 (1.40–3.50)

1.69 (1.05–2.71)

1.49 (1.06–2.10)

1.18 (0.78–1.79)

1.75 (1.23–2.50)

 

Self-injury ideation

Suicide ideation

Total

Boys

Girls

Total

Boys

Girls

No CSA

ref.

ref.

ref.

ref.

ref.

ref.

Verbal/visual CSA

1.16 (1.00-1.36)

1.18 (0.89–1.55)

1.67 (1.17–2.38)

1.34 (0.87–2.05)

1.53 (0.95–2.48)

1.68 (0.86–3.27)

Physical CSA

1.21 (0.83–1.76)

2.01 (1.05–3.83)

0.66 (0.42–1.03)

1.64 (0.87–3.07)

2.90 (1.31–6.40)

0.85 (0.35–2.06)

  1. Adjusted for region, age, family economic status, parental marital status, living with parents, feeling about school life, smoking, drinking, bullied in the past 12 months, romantic relationship and heterosexual intercourse.
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