BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Child abuse has serious physical and psychosocial consequences which adversely affect the health and overall well-being of a child. However, in a developing country like India there has been no knowledge of the extent, magnitude and trends of the problem. This study reviews the overall scenario of child abuse in India as well as the role of the dentist in recognising and ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the power of child, perpetrator, and socio-economic characteristics to predict injury in cases of reported child physical abuse. The study was designed to assess the validity of the assumption that physically injurious incidents of child physical abuse are qualitatively different from those that do not result in injury, that their generative factors are distinctive...

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...

epidemiology and characteristics. Dentists are likely to encounter physical abuse, sexual abuse, health care neglect, dental neglect, and safety neglect. Approximately 1% of children are abused or neglected each year in the United States. The incidence of each type in 1980 is recorded in Table 2.2 Physical Abuse Dentists are in a strategic position to recognize mistreated children. While the de...

Objective: To examine the associations between child physical abuse executed by a parent or caretaker and self-rated health problems/risk-taking behaviors among teenagers. Further to evaluate concurrence of other types of abuse and how these alone and in addition to child physical abuse were associated with bad health status and risk-taking behaviors. Methods: A population-based survey was carr...

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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether individual differences in coping self-efficacy mediated the association of child abuse and symptoms of ADHD in young adults. METHOD Self-reported measures of coping self-efficacy, child abuse, and ADHD were obtained from 66 adults. RESULTS Adults who reported childhood physical or sexual abuse (prior to the age of 17) had significantly higher levels of ADHD ...

Introduction: Child abuse has been defined as allowing others to cause physical, emotional, and sexual harm, and also physical and emotional pain to a child. The present study was a report on a case of physical and sexual child abuse accompanied by traumatic brain injury (TBI) referred to an emergency department.Case Presentation: A 4-year-old child was rushed into an emergency department...