Table 1 Trauma and demographic variables relating to firearm perceptions in a cohort of IPV-exposed woman
Overall** | How easy is it for people who live near you to get a gun? | Are any firearms kept in or around your home? | Does having a gun around make you feel more or less safe? | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Very Easy/ Easy | Hard/ Impossible | No | Yes | Very Safe/ Safe | Somewhat Less Safe/ Very Unsafe | ||||||
Demographic variables | |||||||||||
mean (SD) | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | p-value | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | p-value | mean (SD) | mean (SD) | p-value | ||
Age in years | n = 266 | 44.48 (12.13) | 44.92 (12.05) | 40.91 (11.81) | 0.07 | 44.85 (12.19) | 44.06 (12.18) | 0.60 | 43.24 (12.34) | 45.54 (11.86) | 0.14 |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | n (%) | p-value | n (%) | n (%) | p-value | ||
Race/ Ethnicity | Non-Hispanic white | 236 (89%) | 194 (86%) | 31 (14%) | 0.65 | 128 (55%) | 106 (45%) | 0.19 | 129 (58%) | 92 (42%) | 0.23 |
non-white | 28 (11%) | 25 (89%) | 3 (11%) | 19 (68%) | 9 (32%) | 13 (46%) | 15 (54%) | ||||
Near poverty | Yes | 42 (17%) | 35 (87%) | 5 (13%) | 0.90 | 29 (69%) | 13 (31%) | 0.07 | 23 (55%) | 19 (45%) | 0.76 |
No | 210 (83%) | 179 (88%) | 24 (12%) | 112 (54%) | 96 (46%) | 114 (57%) | 85 (43%) | ||||
Urban | Yes | 121 (46%) | 102 (88%) | 14 (12%) | 0.57 | 76 (63%) | 45 (37%) | 0.05* | 60 (53%) | 53 (47%) | 0.23 |
No | 144 (54%) | 118 (86%) | 20 (14%) | 72 (51%) | 70 (49%) | 83 (61%) | 54 (39%) | ||||
Marital status | Divorced/ Separated | 47 (18%) | 42 (89%) | 5 (11%) | 0.33 | 35 (74%) | 12 (26%) | < 0.01* | 22 (50%) | 22 (50%) | 0.48 |
Married | 127 (48%) | 103 (85%) | 18 (15%) | 53 (42%) | 73 (58%) | 71 (60%) | 47 (40%) | ||||
Partnered | 60 (23%) | 47 (82%) | 10 (18%) | 36 (61%) | 23 (39%) | 36 (60%) | 24 (40%) | ||||
Widowed/ Single | 32 (12%) | 29 (97%) | 1 (3%) | 24 (75%) | 8 (25%) | 14 (48%) | 15 (52%) | ||||
Education | High school or less | 62 (23%) | 51 (85%) | 9 (15%) | 0.86 | 35 (56%) | 27 (44%) | 0.63 | 35 (58%) | 25 (42%) | 0.87 |
Some College | 84 (32%) | 69 (87%) | 10 (13%) | 50 (60%) | 33 (40%) | 46 (58%) | 33 (42%) | ||||
College Graduate | 119 (45%) | 101 (88%) | 14 (12%) | 63 (53%) | 55 (47%) | 61 (55%) | 50 (45%) | ||||
Interpersonal trauma variables | |||||||||||
Lifetime IPV exposure type | Non Physical (Humiliate-Afraid) | 93 (35%) | 77 (86%) | 12 (14%) | 0.94 | 51 (55%) | 41 (45%) | 0.85 | 48 (57%) | 36 (43%) | 0.93 |
Physical (Rape-Kick) | 174 (65%) | 145 (87%) | 22 (13%) | 98 (57%) | 75 (43%) | 95 (57%) | 73 (43%) | ||||
Past year exposure to IPV | Yes | 56 (21%) | 45 (83%) | 9 (17%) | 0.41 | 29 (52%) | 27 (48%) | 0.45 | 24 (44%) | 30 (56%) | 0.04* |
No | 211 (79%) | 177 (88%) | 25 (12%) | 120 (57%) | 89 (43%) | 119 (60%) | 79 (40%) | ||||
Unwanted sexual exposure | Never | 94 (37%) | 77 (86%) | 13 (14%) | 0.77 | 46 (49%) | 47 (51%) | 0.11 | 59 (69%) | 27 (31%) | 0.01* |
Past Year | 14 (5%) | 12 (92%) | 1 (8%) | 11 (79%) | 3 (21%) | 4 (31%) | 9 (69%) | ||||
Lifetime | 149 (58%) | 126 (88%) | 18 (12%) | 85 (57%) | 63 (43%) | 77 (53%) | 68 (47%) | ||||
Adverse childhood events | T1 (0-1) | 96 (37%) | 78 (83%) | 15 (16%) | 0.50 | 49 (51%) | 47 (49%) | 0.18 | 57 (66%) | 29 (34%) | < 0.01* |
T2 (2-3) | 78 (3%) | 64 (88%) | 9 (12%) | 42 (55%) | 34 (45%) | 47 (64%) | 27 (36%) | ||||
T3 (4-10) | 82 (32%) | 71 (90%) | 8 (10%) | 53 (65%) | 29 (35%) | 33 (41%) | 48 (59%) | ||||