Research Article
Prediction of Repeat Visits by Victims of Intimate Partner Violence to a Level III Trauma Centre
Table 1
Sociodemographics of domestic violence clients who visited the emergency room.
| | | Multiple visits (%) | Single visits (%) | Odds ratio 95% confidence intervals |
| | | | | | | Gender of victim | | | | | Female | 245 (95.3) | 2029 (90.3) | 2.18 (1.20–3.96) | | Male | 12 (4.7) | 217 (9.7) | | | Gender of perpetrator | | | | | Female | 15 (5.8) | 201 (8.9) | 1.58 (0.92–2.73) | | Male | 242 (94.2) | 2045 (91.1) | | | Previous abuse by a different perpetrator | | | | | Yes | 127 (77.0) | 677 (49.9) | 3.35 (2.30–4.90) | | No | 38 (23.0) | 680 (50.1) | | | Abused in childhood | | | | | Yes | 78 (63.9) | 488 (46.2) | 2.07 (1.40–3.05) | | No | 44 (36.1) | 569 (53.8) | | | Victim relationship to perpetrator | | | | | Married/live in | 144 (62.3) | 1288 (66.6) | 1 | | Dating | 57 (24.7) | 359 (18.6) | 0.94 (0.62–1.42) | | Separated divorced | 30 (13.0) | 286 (14.8) | 1.42 (1.02–1.97) | | Ethnicity | | | | | European | 127 (49.8) | 1136 (51.8) | 1.00 | | Chinese or other East Asia | 14 (5.5) | 470 (21.4) | 0.27 (0.15–0.47) | | India/Pakistan | 6 (2.4) | 121 (5.5) | 0.44 (0.19–1.03) | | Central/South America | 5 (2.0) | 64 (2.9) | 0.70 (0.27–1.77) | | Middle East | 5 (2.0) | 32 (1.5) | 1.40 (0.53–3.65) | | First Nations | 98 (32.4) | 371 (16.4) | 2.36 (1.78–3.15) | | Other | 1 (0.4) | 14 (0.6) | | | Language spoken at home | | | | | English | 223 (88.8) | 1555 (73.3) | 1.00 | | Chinese/Mandarin/Cantonese | 6 (2.4) | 201 (9.5) | 0.21 (0.09–0.48) | | Punjabi | 4 (1.6) | 82 (3.9) | 0.34 (0.12–0.94) | | Other | 18 (7.2) | 284 (13.4) | 0.44 (0.27–0.73) | | Age | | | | | 10–19 | 9 (3.5) | 136 (6.1) | 0.93 (0.45–1.94) | | 20–29 | 48 (18.7) | 676 (30.5) | 1.00 | | 30–39 | 86 (33.5) | 678 (30.5) | 1.79 (1.24–2.58) | | 40–49 | 73 (28.4) | 420 (18.9) | 2.45 (1.67–3.59) | | 50–59 | 25 (9.7) | 168 (7.6) | 2.10 (1.26–3.50) | | 60 and over | 6 (2.3) | 80 (3.6) | 1.59 (0.88–2.88) |
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