Adult retrospective report of child abuse and prospective indicators of childhood harm: a population birth cohort study

Table.5 Positive predictive value for (i) total population and (ii) stratified by 45 years depression

	Total	Depressed	Non-depressed
Any harmful environment (0 vs. 1+)	0.58 (0.55, 0.61)	0.58 (0.52, 0.64)	0.58 (0.55, 0.61)
Impoverished upbringing (7–16 years)	0.23 (0.21, 0.26)	0.24 (0.19, 0.29)	0.23 (0.21, 0.26)
Hazardous conditions (7–16 years)	0.12 (0.10, 0.14)	0.09 (0.06, 0.13)	0.12 (0.10, 0.15)
Anti-social behaviours (7–16 years)	0.30 (0.27, 0.33)	0.34 (0.28, 0.39)	0.29 (0.26, 0.32)
Poor parent-child relationships (16 years)	0.23 (0.20, 0.25)	0.23 (0.17, 0.28)	0.23 (0.20, 0.25)

Positive predictive value: probability of having at least one prospectively recorded harmful environment (7–16 years) among those who retrospectively reported child abuse at 45 years

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