History of childhood abuse in Portuguese parents

In this multicentre prospective study, the authors aim to describe the social and clinical characteristics of a population of children who arrived with a suspicion of physical abuse at five Emergency Services across France and who underwent clinical and thorough radiological screening according to a common predetermined protocol. A total of 185 cases of children seen at the Emergency units of five French hospitals over a 4-year period was assessed via a specific protocol and included in this study. The results of this study show socio-cultural factors consistent with previous reports on abused populations, and in particular give interesting data concerning the type and severity of lesions present, on the whole, in 80% of the population studied. In particular this study revealed a high prevalence (30%) of bone fractures. Apart from giving a perspective on the French population, this study adds some information to the too few preexisting studies of its kind-and stresses the importance of effective identification of possible cases of child abuse and of a thorough and sensitive screening protocol.

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“…General studies from South America [17], Portugal [1,6], Africa [5] and China [8] confirm similar trends.…”

Section: Suspected Perpetratorsupporting

confidence: 75%

A multicentre and prospective study of suspected cases of child physical abuse

Martrille¹,

Cattaneo²,

Dorandeu³

et al. 2005

Int J Legal Med

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“…In general, the studies confirm a higher prevalence of childhood sexual abuse among women than in men, the two exceptions being the South African study by Madu and Peltzer (2001), where the ratio between females and males was .89, and the study by Figueiredo et al (2004), where the prevalence for both genders was almost the same (2.7% in women versus 2.6% in men). The other articles report female abuse to be between 1.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 49%

“…For instance, in Figueiredo et al (2004) the teachers gave their pupils questionnaires on physical and sexual abuse experiences, but these were to be filled in by their parents. The parents had to answer the questionnaire about their own childhood experiences and return them to their children, who then handed back the questionnaires to the teachers.…”

Section: Measurement Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse: A continuation of Finkelhor (1994)

Pereda

Guilera

Forns

et al. 2009

Child Abuse & Neglect

441

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a b s t r a c tObjective: The purpose of this paper was to compare the prevalence rates of child sexual abuse reported by [Finkelhor, D. (1994). The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18 (5),[409][410][411][412][413][414][415][416][417] with those found in recent publications in order to confirm the widespread prevalence of child sexual abuse. Methods: Relevant articles about prevalence of child sexual abuse were identified through searches of computerized databases and a handsearch of Child Abuse & Neglect and the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. Results: Thirty-eight independent articles were identified, corresponding to 39 prevalence studies; these articles report the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse in 21 different countries, ranging from 0 to 53% for women and 0 to 60% for men. Conclusions:Comparison of the present study with that of [Finkelhor, D. (1994). The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 18 (5), 409-417] shows a similarity between prevalence distributions; there appears to be a general pattern that remains more or less constant over the years, especially in women. Practice implications: Twelve years after the first revision study about the international prevalence of child sexual abuse, there is still a need for new data about this topic. The present study shows child sexual abuse is still a widespread problem in the society. In this research, carried out on 38 independent studies, there is new data for 21 countries over the world, being especially relevant the results obtained from other countries different from those pertaining to North America or Europe. It is important to point out the high prevalence found in most of the countries, so this information could be a new warning to make society and governments aware of this problem and undertake actions to prevent sexual abuse in childhood.

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“…Gender; because of there being studies relating to male apprentices' being subjected to abuse more (Rauscher, 2008;Kacker et al, 2007;Ç agdaş , 2002), age; thinking that abuse increases as the age decreases (Kacker et al, 2007;Hadi, 2000), sector of work; as working in industry that has harder conditions is thought to be risk factor according to the characteristics of working areas, number of siblings; thinking that with the increase of the number of the children the family can't control their children at the workplaces and with each child as the family income decreases and in spite of the problems at the workplace, the apprentices are forced to continue working (Hirschman & Voloshin, 2007), whether parents live together or not; as being with a single parent is thought to cause the decrease in the family income and to decrease child's perception of social support, family's income level; because of there being studies indicating that the violence increases with poverty (Kacker et al, 2007;Hadi, 2000), starting to work because of being unsuccesful at school; as the characteristics of the person being subjected to abuse are thought to be effective in abuse (UNICEF, 2006), length of service; as it is thought that the ones having fewer working years are less qualified and they can be subjected to abuse more (Ortega, Hogh, Pejtersen, Feveile, & Olsen, 2008), daily working duration; because of the fact that long working hours will raise the period passed with the exploiter (Audu et al, 2009), the number of the people employed in the workplace; owing to the fact that the increase in the number of the employees at the workplace can increase the number of the people causing abuse; the employer's gender; because of its being reported in the study relating to domestic abuse that males abuse males and females abuse females more and similarly the situation can be the same at the workplace (Figueiredo, Antonia, Carla, Maia, & Fernandes, 2004), weekly wage; lowness of the wage can be associated with not accepting the deeds of the child worker worthwhile and the lowness of working skills Ortega et al, 2008), smoking, alcohol, substance use; on account of the studies showing the relation between substance use and violence (Kugu, Akyüz, Ersan, & Dogan, 2000), abuse within the family; because of there being studies indicating that the violence started within the family continues in the future (WHO, 2007;Hussey, Chang, & Kotch, 2006) all of these above were evaluated as risk factors and were included in the model.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 88%