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Table 5 Population attributable fractions calculated for violence exposure and mental disorders as outcome variables for women and men

From: Intimate partner violence and its contribution to mental disorders in men and women in the post genocide Rwanda: findings from a population based study

 

Proportion of the outcome attributable to the exposure for women, N = 477

 
  

Major depressive episodes past two weeks

Major depressive episodes in earlier periods

Suicide risk

PTSD

Generalized anxiety disorder

Exposure

Physical violence

0.40

0.28

0.33

0.23

0.52

Sexual violence

0.43

0.25

0.27

0.27

0.59

Psychological violence

0.43

0.27

0.32

0.21

0.48

Proportion of the outcome attributable to the exposure for men, N = 440

 
 

Major depressive episodes past two weeks

Major depressive episodes in earlier periods

Suicide risk

PTSD

Generalized anxiety disorder

Physical violence

0.23

0.07

0.04

0.03

0.55

Psychological violence

0.19

0.09

0.03

0.05

0.44