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Table 2 Prevalence of other types of violence and abuse, mental disorder, self-harm, suicidality and harmful/dependent alcohol use by whether exposed to threatening/obscene messages from a (ex)partner

From: Receiving threatening or obscene messages from a partner and mental health, self-harm and suicidality: results from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey

 

Men

Women

Total

 

Threatening/obscene messages

Not exposed

Total

Threatening/obscene messages

Not exposed

Total

Threatening/obscene messages

Not exposed

Total

Type of violence and abusea

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

 Physical abuse from caregiver in childhood

31.9

13.4

14.2

24.0

9.5

10.8

26.5

11.4

12.4

 Sexual abuse in childhood

14.4

4.0

4.5

27.7

9.6

11.1

23.5

6.8

7.9

 Emotional abuse from caregiver in childhood

33.8

7.7

8.8

28.6

10.1

11.7

30.2

8.9

10.3

 Physical violence from partner in adulthood

48.8

8.2

10.0

69.7

14.6

19.3

63.1

11.4

14.8

 Sexual abuse or violence in adulthood

6.8

1.5

1.7

29.1

7.3

9.2

22.0

4.4

5.6

 Emotional abuse from partner in adulthood

42.1

4.9

6.6

67.6

12.7

17.4

59.4

8.8

12.2

Mental disorder and self-harm

 Common mental disorder (CMD)

31.5

12.0

12.9

42.8

18.3

20.5

39.2

15.2

16.8

 Non-suicidal self-harm in past year

3.0

1.2

1.3

7.1

1.7

2.2

5.8

1.5

1.7

 Suicidal thoughts in past year

13.0

4.4

4.8

12.4

3.8

4.6

12.6

4.1

4.7

 Suicide attempt in past year

1.3

0.5

0.5

2.4

0.5

0.7

2.0

0.5

0.6

 Harmful/dependent alcohol use

12.0

4.4

4.7

5.8

1.5

1.8

7.8

2.9

3.2

 N

114

2617

2731

370

3703

4073

484

6320

6804

  1. aCMD, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt, non-suicidal self-harm and experience of all types of violence and abuse were more likely in those who had received threatening/obscene messages in the past year at p < 0.001