Association of childhood physical and sexual abuse with arthritis in adulthood: Findings from a population-based study

Autor: Philip Baiden, Lisa S. Panisch, Henry K. Onyeaka, Catherine A. LaBrenz, Yeonwoo Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 23, Iss , Pp 101463- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2211-3355
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101463
Popis: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate childhood physical and sexual abuse as factors associated with arthritis among adults from selected states in the United States. Data for this study came from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. An analytic sample of 75,717 adults 18–75 years old (49.7% female) was analyzed using log-binomial regression. The outcome variable investigated in this study was arthritis, and the main explanatory variables were childhood physical and sexual abuse. Of the 75,717 respondents examined, 20,938 (representing 27.6%) had arthritis. A little over one in four respondents (25.5%) experienced childhood physical abuse and 5.6% experienced childhood sexual abuse by age 18. In the multivariable regression, respondents who experienced childhood physical abuse had 1.36 times the risk of having arthritis when compared to respondents who did not experience childhood physical abuse (ARR = 1.36, p
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