Associations between lifetime sexual and physical abuse, personal background factors and 1 year prevalence of sports injury (>3 weeks' time loss) among athletics athletes (n=197)
Sports injury (1 year prevalence) | ||||||
Men (n=92) | Women (n=105) | All athletes (n=197) | ||||
Simple models | Multiple models | Simple models | Multiple models | Simple models | Multiple models | |
Lifetime abuse | ||||||
Sexual | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||
Physical | NS | NS | 4.18 (1.10 to 15.83) (P=0.035) | 12.37 (1.52 to 100.37) (P=0.019) | 2.44 (1.11 to 5.40) (P=0.027) | 2.44 (1.11 to 5.40) (P=0.027) |
Athletics | ||||||
Commencing >13 years of age | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||
Event category | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||
Training load | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||
Childhood family | ||||||
Parents ≤12 years of formal education | 0.37 (0.14 to 0.96) (P=0.040) | 0.37 (0.14 to 0.96) (P=0.040) | NS | NS | ||
Parents financially disadvantaged | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||
Immigrants | NS | NS | NS | 0.07 (0.01 to 0.82) (P=0.035) | NS | |
Social behaviours | ||||||
Regular use of alcoholic beverages | NS | NS | NS | NS* | ||
Binge drinking | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||
R2 =0.06 | R2 =0.14 | R2 =0.03 |
Values are OR (95% CI).
*2.53 (0.95 to 6.71) (P=0.063).