Dimensions of Child Maltreatment in Australians With a History of Out-of-Home Care.

IF 4.5 2区 社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES
Lottie G Harris, Daryl J Higgins, Megan L Willis, David Lawrence, Franziska Meinck, Hannah J Thomas, Eva Malacova, James G Scott, Rosana Pacella, Divna M Haslam
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Research suggests that the dimensions of childhood maltreatment (type, age of onset, duration, frequency and perpetrator) play an important role in determining health and wellbeing outcomes, though little information is available on these dimensions for any care experienced cohorts. This study aimed to determine if any variation in maltreatment dimensions were experienced between two subsets of the nationally representative Australian Child Maltreatment Study, both of which reported childhood maltreatment histories: care-experienced (n = 358) and non-care-experienced (n = 4922). Using a series of independent t-tests and chi-square tests, we compared the two groups on seven dimensions (number of maltreatment types, range of maltreatment items, age of onset, duration, frequency, perpetrator number, and perpetrator type) for the five child maltreatment types (physical, emotional, sexual abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence). Results showed that the care-experienced group reported a higher intensity of maltreatment, being younger when maltreatment first started, experiencing greater variety of maltreatment types, for longer periods, more times and by more perpetrators than maltreated people with no care experience. We conclude that children and young people in out-of-home care experience maltreatment at a higher intensity than the rest of the population, which has implications for effective treatment.

有家庭外照料史的澳大利亚人遭受儿童虐待的程度。
研究表明,童年虐待的各个方面(类型、发病年龄、持续时间、频率和施虐者)在决定健康和幸福结果方面发挥着重要作用,但目前几乎没有关于任何有照料经历的群体在这些方面的信息。本研究旨在确定具有全国代表性的 "澳大利亚儿童虐待研究"(Australian Child Maltreatment Study)的两个子集之间是否存在虐待方面的差异,这两个子集都报告了儿童虐待史:有照料经历(n = 358)和无照料经历(n = 4922)。通过一系列独立的 t 检验和卡方检验,我们从七个方面(虐待类型的数量、虐待项目的范围、发病年龄、持续时间、频率、施虐者数量和施虐者类型)对两组儿童的五种虐待类型(身体虐待、精神虐待、性虐待、忽视和家庭暴力)进行了比较。结果显示,与没有护理经验的受虐待者相比,有护理经验的受虐待者报告的虐待强度更高,开始遭受虐待时年龄更小,经历的虐待类型更多,时间更长,次数更多,施虐者更多。我们的结论是,与其他人群相比,接受家庭外照料的儿童和青少年遭受虐待的强度更高,这对有效治疗产生了影响。
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Child Maltreatment
Child Maltreatment Multiple-
CiteScore
6.80
自引率
7.80%
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66
期刊介绍: Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation"s largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment"s object is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research.
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