Gun violence against unhoused and unstably housed women: A cross-sectional study that highlights links to childhood violence

Table 2 Prevalence of experiencing violence with a gun or another weapon, or being hit or kicked hard enough to cause injury as an adult among unhoused and unstably housed women who experienced specific forms of childhood violence

	% Attacked with Gun as Adult (n of N); p-value	% Attacked with Knife or Another Weapon as Adult (n of N); p-value	% Hit or Kicked Hard Enough to Cause Injury as Adult (n of N); p-value
Hit or kicked as child versus not	56.3% (67 of 119) versus 33.9% (42 of 124); < 0.001	67.2% (80 of 119) versus 41.9% (52 of 124); < 0.001	86.6% (103 of 119) versus 61.3% (76 of 124); < 0.001
Forced sexual contact as child versus not	48.2% (52 of 108) versus 41.04% (55 of 134); 0.269	58.3% (63 of 108) versus 50.0% (67 of 134); 0.196	80.6% (87 of 108) versus 68.7% (92 of 134); 0.036
Attacked with gun as child versus not	68.4% (13 of 19) versus 42.2% (94 of 223); 0.027	79.0% (15 of 19) vs 51.6% (115 of 223); 0.022	89.5% (17 of 19) versus 72.2% (161 of 223); 0.101
Attacked with knife or another weapon as child versus not	56.9% (29 of 51) versus 41.8% (81 of 194); 0.054	68.6% (35 of 51) versus 50.5% (98 of 194); 0.021	84.3% (43 of 51) versus 71.1% (138 of 194); 0.057

P values presented are from Pearson’s Chi-squared tests and comparisons are drawn between those who reported experiencing the type of violence listed as a child and those who did not report that specific form of violence as a child
Missing data: 3 people are missing data on childhood gun violence and 3 are missing data on childhood sexual violence; 2 people are missing data on childhood physical violence

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