Gastrointestinal symptoms in abused nonpatient women

BMC Women's Health

Table 8 Association between sociodemographic characteristics, abuse history, and the total number of reported gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. Univariate analysis

	Lawyers Control group					Women referring to A-V centers
	Coef	SE	P > z	95% CI		Coef	SE	P > z	95% CI
Age	0.006	0.006	0.279	−0.005	0.018	−0.015	−2.190	0.028	−0.029	−0.002
Level of education
Secondary vs. primary school	0.069	0.211	0.743	−0.344	0.482	−0.321	−2.510	0.012	−0.571	−0.070
University vs. primary school	0.055	0.224	0.807	−0.385	0.494	−0.154	−0.950	0.344	−0.471	0.164
Economic self-sufficiency Yes vs. no	−0.155	0.148	0.296	−0.446	0.136	0.060	0.520	0.602	−0.164	0.283
BMI	0.076	0.016	0.000	0.044	0.108	−0.007	−0.400	0.690	−0.039	0.026
Smoking habit Yes vs. no	0.234	0.137	0.089	−0.036	0.503	0.271	2.260	0.024	0.036	0.507
Alcohol consumption Yes vs. no	0.090	0.139	0.518	−0.183	0.363	0.132	1.090	0.276	−0.106	0.370
Drugs use Yes vs. no	0.133	0.149	0.372	−0.159	0.425	0.748	6.380	0.000	0.518	0.978
Car accidents Yes vs no	0.832	0.310	0.007	0.225	1.439	0.140	1.190	0.235	−0.091	0.370
Chronic non-GI diseases Yes vs. no	0.116	0.142	0.414	−0.163	0.395	0.616	4.340	0.000	0.337	0.894
Time of perpetration of abuse Adulthood (> 13) vs adulthood plus childhood (≤ 13)	−0.435	0.208	0.037	−0.843	−0.027	−0.389	−2.910	0.004	−0.652	−0.127
No abuse vs childhood abuse	−0.168	0.152	0.268	−0.465	0.129	-	-	-	-
Type of abuse Physical vs physical plus sexual	−0.530	0.170	0.002	−0.863	−0.197	−0.519	−3.740	0.000	−0.791	−0.247
No abuse vs. physical plus sexual	−0.330	0.164	0.044	−0.650	−0.009	-	-	-	-
AMS (≥ 5 vs. < 5)	−0.916	0.710	0.197	−2.309	0.476	0.529	0.114	0.000	0.306	0.753
AMS (≥ 2 vs. < 2)	0.448	0.142	0.002	0.171	0.726	0.412	0.171	0.016	0.077	0.748

Coeff. coefficient; SE standard error; BMI body mass index; ASM abuse severity measure

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