Objective: The purpose of this study was to measure the prevalence of substance abuse by in-home caregivers of maltreated children, and to compare the prevalence of selfreported substance abuse to child welfare worker-identified substance abuse. Method: Data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, a national probability sample of children investigated for child maltreatment...

BACKGROUND Public child healthcare doctors and nurses, and primary school teachers play a pivotal role in the detection and reporting of child abuse, because they encounter almost all children in the population during their daily work. However, they report relatively few cases of suspected child abuse to child protective agencies. The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate Dutch front...

The impact of perceived child abuse history on 160 adult, Native American women's emotional well-being (i.e., depressive mood and anger) and AIDS risk was examined. How sense of mastery and social support might lead to women's greater resiliency was also investigated. Child physical-emotional abuse was found to have greater impact on depressive mood and anger and AIDS risk than did child sexual...

OBJECTIVE This study explored the main and interactive effects of sexual abuse history and relationship satisfaction on self-reported parenting, controlling for histories of physical abuse and parental alcoholism. METHOD The community sample consisted of 90 mothers of 5- to 8-year-old children. The sample was limited to those mothers currently in an intimate relationship, 19 of whom reported ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to estimate the pooled prevalence of different types of child abuse in Iran. METHOD We systematically searched four English databases (PubMed, Sciencedirect, PsychINFO and Scopus), and three Farsi databases (Magiran, IranMedex and SID) to find out relevant articles that have reported the prevalence of child abuse in Iran. Studies conducted on special...

BACKGROUND Child abuse is an important health issue but it is little known how abuse experiences in childhood and current health risk behaviors are related. OBJECTIVES To (a) study the prevalence and characteristics of child abuse experience, (b) test the hypothesis that youths with a history of child abuse would have more health risk behaviors compared to their non-abused counterparts and (c...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Child abuse and neglect is common in the United States, and victims often present to emergency departments (EDs) for care. Most US children who seek care in EDs are treated in general EDs without specialized pediatric services. We aim to explore general ED providers' experiences with screening and reporting of child abuse and neglect to identify barriers and facilitators to dete...

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by greater engagement in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidality. The aim of the study is to test whether the occurrence of child abuse contributes to these high-risk behaviors in BPD youth. MATERIALS AND METHODS BPD female youth aged 13-21years with (n=29) and without (n=29) a history of child abuse were administered c...

There is a controversy in child abuse pediatrics between an established corps of child abuse pediatricians aligned with hospital colleagues and law enforcement, and a multi-specialty challenger group of doctors and other medical professionals working with public interest lawyers. The latter group questions the scientific validity of the core beliefs of child abuse pediatricians and believes tha...

The problem of child abuse was first described by Kempe et al. in their landmark article entitled “the battered child syndrome,” which was published in 1962. Since then, the problem has had increased recognition worldwide, and legal solutions and state-enforced statutes have been put in place to combat this menace in many Western countries. In the US, child abuse is the second most important ca...