Associations of Changes in Mental Health with New Reports of Physical and Verbal Abuse at Year 3
| Depressive Symptomatologya | MCS Scorea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abuse | Mean (SD) | P Valueb | Mean (SD) | P Valueb |
| MCS = mental component summary, from the RAND 36-Item Health Survey 1.0. | ||||
| Note: The cohort for this analysis is women who reported no abuse exposure at baseline. | ||||
| a The values for depressive symptomatology and the MCS score represent a change in score from baseline. Negative values represent a decline in score. | ||||
| b P values from simple linear regression models with 3 indicators for categories of abuse; reference level is no abuse. | ||||
| No abuse (n = 75,376) | 0.09 (2.6) | – | 0.51 (8.35) | – |
| Physical abuse only (n = 136) | 0.43 (3.3) | .14 | −1.34 (11.2) | .016 |
| Verbal abuse only (n = 6,133) | 0.65 (3.3) | <.001 | −1.26 (10.4) | <.001 |
| Physical and verbal abuse (n = 483) | 0.77 (3.9) | <.001 | −1.82 (11.7) | <.001 |