The impact of childhood sexual abuse and its associated stigma on depressed women in Egypt

Table 2 Multiple regression analysis for variables predicting the severity of depression (BDI-II scores) in depressed women (n = 160)

Variables	B	t	P
History of childhood sexual abuse	0.34	3.03	0.008
Stigma related to childhood sexual abuse	0.23	2.23	0.01
Duration of depression	0.16	1.45	0.1
Age of onset of depression	− 0.07	0.67	0.5
Number of hospitalizations	0.03	0.23	0.8
Hopelessness (BHS)	0.21	2.04	0.04
Model R²	0.56
P	< 0.001

BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory, second edition, BHS Beck Hopelessness Scale