Associations of ACEs and various sociodemographic markers with health and health risk behaviours on the RD scale and PAFs.

PAF is the proportion of the people experiencing each outcome (depression, illicit drug use, obesity, harmful alcohol use, or smoking) who also experienced the ‘exposure’ (ACEs or sociodemographic variable). PAF can be interpreted as the proportion of the outcome cases that could be prevented if the exposure was eliminated, assuming causality. Note that the reference categories in this table differ from those in other parts of the manuscript; here, the reference category is all other participants apart from those with the exposure (for example, the reference category for 4+ ACEs here is <4 ACEs).