Table 1 Violence/abuse, prevalence of types of aggression among older adults, by sex. Mexico’s 2012, National Health and Nutrition Survey

Type of aggression

% (CI 95 %)

% (CI 95 %)

% (CI 95 %)

 Verbal aggressions

61.2 (41.9–78.2)

64.3 (44.1–88.4)

62.9 (48.7–75.1)

 Hitting, kicking, punching

32.3 (16.4–56.7)

9.8 (4.3–20.6)

20.1 (11.7–32.3)*

 Other aggressions or abuse

1.2 (0.3–4.6)

18.7 (7.4–39.8)

10.6 (4.4–23.4)*

 Other

18.3 (8.3–35.7)

8.5 (3.8–17.7)

13.0 (7.4–21.9)

 Pushing downward from an elevated location

1.8 (0.3–9.2)

2.1 (0.6–7.7)

2.0 (0.7–5.3)

 Aggressions with substances

2.0 (0.3–13.4)

0.0-

0.9 (0.1–6.4)

 Suffocation, strangulation, drowning

1.5 (0.2–10.1)

0.3 (0.004–2.4)

0.9 (0.2–4.3)

 Sharp object wound (knife, blade, etc.)

0.1 (0.008–1.0)

1.4 (0.2–9.2)

0.8 (0.1–4.8)

 Sexual assault

-

1.5 (0.3–7.2)

0.8 (0.2–3.9)

 Poisoning or airway obstruction with substances or hot objects

-

-

 Firearm wound

-

-

-

 NA/DK^a

1.0 (0.2–7.0)

1.3 (0.2–8.9)

1.2 (0.3–4.7)