The Role of Protective Adults in Mitigating Health Outcomes Linked to Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse.

IF 3.3 2区社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Maltreatment Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.1177/10775595251322084

Shannon Halls, Philip Baiden, Andie MacNeil, Esme Fuller-Thomson

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Abstract

Childhood physical and/or sexual abuse are associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood. Protective factors may contribute to resilience and reduce the risk of these adult health outcomes. This study aims to determine if the presence of a protective adult can mitigate the association between childhood abuse and negative adult health outcomes. Data were obtained from the 2021 and 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (n = 83,495). Binary logistic regression was used to compare the odds of health outcomes in adults who experienced abuse before age 18 compared to those who did not, adjusting for the presence of a protective adult and socio-demographic, socioeconomic, and health behavior factors. Childhood physical and/or sexual abuse were associated with higher odds of physical and mental health conditions in adulthood. Adjusting for the presence of a protective adult partially attenuated the odds of many adult health outcomes. Understanding protective factors associated with childhood abuse may improve targeted outreach and provide helpful direction for the development of effective programs for children experiencing abuse.

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保护性成人在减轻与儿童身体虐待和性虐待有关的健康结果中的作用。

儿童时期的身体和/或性虐待与成年后的负面身心健康结果有关。保护性因素可能有助于恢复力并降低这些成人健康结果的风险。这项研究的目的是确定是否存在一个保护性的成年人可以减轻儿童虐待和负面的成人健康结果之间的联系。数据来自2021年和2022年行为风险因素监测系统（n = 83,495）。使用二元逻辑回归来比较18岁之前遭受虐待的成年人与未遭受虐待的成年人的健康结果的几率，调整成人保护和社会人口统计学、社会经济和健康行为因素的存在。儿童时期的身体和/或性虐待与成年后出现身体和精神健康状况的可能性较高有关。调整成人的存在保护部分降低了许多成人健康结果的几率。了解与儿童虐待相关的保护因素可以改善有针对性的外展，并为为遭受虐待的儿童制定有效的计划提供有益的方向。

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Child Maltreatment Multiple-

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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.