Child sexual abuse

Fegert, Jörg M.

doi:10.1007/s00103-007-0111-y

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“…[29] A source of serious concern due to its likelihood of becoming a persistent health challenge if the act of violence is sustained and the victim not counselled and rehabilitated early. Violence/abuse correlates with both functional and structural cerebral alterations in the future [30][31][32] The injuries are not only physical but emotional. The anger and stress experienced by victims may lead to depression and other emotional disorders sometimes leading to suicide [33] Victims may also exhibit harmful health behavior like excessive smoking, alcohol abuse, use of drugs and engaging in risky sexual activity.…”

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Violence and Mental Health among Adolescents in South East Nigeria

Ughasoro

Onukwuli

Onwujekwe

et al. 2021

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BackgroundThere is rise in the prevalence of mental health illnesses among the adolescent and the impact of violence on this rising trend requires to be evaluated. This is the aim of this study.Methods.The study was a cross-sectional school based study. Adolescents in the selected schools were interviewed using structured questionnaire. Information on the previous experience of violence, the action they took, and the effect on them were collected. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS. Significant was set at the p-value of <0.05.ResultsA total of 716 adolescents were involved in the study. The prevalence of violence was 87%. About 57.2% of the violence occurred at home, 44.2% done by relatives and 49.2% within the past 6 months. Sexual abuse was 10.2%. Among the adolescents that experienced violence, 58.7% suffered some form of mental health illness(es). There was significant difference between the action the adolescents took after the violence incident and the action their considered appropriate (p=0.00001). Female gender (p=0.042), not living with parents (p=0.015) and poverty (p=0.00001) significantly correlate with adolescent violence.Discussion and Conclusion.Violence is high among adolescent and associated with high prevalence of mental health illnesses. Intervention to reduce violence should target improvement in poverty alleviation programs to empower families to carter for their children should be implemented.

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Violence and Mental Health among Adolescents in South East Nigeria

Ughasoro

Onukwuli

Onwujekwe

et al. 2021

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“…Sexual abuse by caregivers is additionally a breach of trust by a close person. The victim-perpetrator relationship is consequently often ambiguous (Fegert, 2007).…”

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The Definitions Are Legion: Academic Views and Practice Perspectives on Violence Against Children

Jud¹,

Voll²

2019

Sociological Studies of Children and Youth

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Both research and child protection practice are still far away from having uniform definitions of violence against children. The different disciplines involved in the sectors of national child protection systems rely on separate discourses and terms; definitions are sometimes rather general or implicit, and operationalizations of important elements are rare. The various terms in use -child maltreatment, child abuse and neglect, child endangerment, children at risk, children in need, etc.speak of the variety not only of concepts, but also of practices. With respect to the latter, definitional issues are also issues of the scope and thresholds of intervention. This manuscript provides an overview of major terms and definitional approaches to violence against children and identifies eminent differences between them. Findings from several studies on the Swiss child protection system, including the first multi-sectorial national survey on agency responses to child maltreatment, illustrate how professionals use definitions and the consequences of having multiple definitional concepts for documenting reported cases. We conclude by advocating for a consensusbased interdisciplinary process of developing shared definitions of violence against children.

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“…Starting points for the improvement of care and thus assumingly also for long-term cost savings are indicated in numerous literature sources, which, for example demand a stronger interconnectedness of the respective institutions [15,[73][74][75][76][77] or a more specific qualification in the medical community [15,[78][79][80][81]. Fiscally responsible decision-making, though, should rely on the economic evaluation of any intervention or prevention program [82].…”

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A Prevalence-Based Approach to Societal Costs Occurring in Consequence of Child Abuse and Neglect

Habetha¹,

Bleich²,

Weidenhammer³

et al. 2015

The Societal Burden of Child Abuse

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Background: Traumatization in childhood can result in lifelong health impairment and may have a negative impact on other areas of life such as education, social contacts and employment as well. Despite the frequent occurrence of traumatization, which is reflected in a 14.5 percent prevalence rate of severe child abuse and neglect, the economic burden of the consequences is hardly known. The objective of this prevalence-based cost-of-illness study is to show how impairment of the individual is reflected in economic trauma follow-up costs borne by society as a whole in Germany and to compare the results with other countries' costs. Methods: From a societal perspective trauma follow-up costs were estimated using a bottom-up approach. The literature-based prevalence rate includes emotional, physical and sexual abuse as well as physical and emotional neglect in Germany. Costs are derived from individual case scenarios of child endangerment presented in a German cost-benefit-analysis. A comparison with trauma follow-up costs in Australia, Canada and the USA is based on purchasing power parity. Results: The annual trauma follow-up costs total to a margin of EUR 11.1 billion for the lower bound and to EUR 29.8 billion for the upper bound. This equals EUR 134.84 and EUR 363.58, respectively, per capita for the German population. These results conform to the ones obtained from cost studies conducted in Australia (lower bound) and Canada (upper bound), whereas the result for the United States is much lower.

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Child sexual abuse

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Violence and Mental Health among Adolescents in South East Nigeria

Violence and Mental Health among Adolescents in South East Nigeria

The Definitions Are Legion: Academic Views and Practice Perspectives on Violence Against Children

A Prevalence-Based Approach to Societal Costs Occurring in Consequence of Child Abuse and Neglect

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