The present study examined the relationship among physical abuse, psychological abuse, perceived family functioning and adolescent suicidal ideation in Shanghai, China. Perceived family functioning was investigated as a possible moderator between physical abuse, psychological abuse and suicidal ideation. A cross sectional survey using convenience sampling was conducted. A total of 560 valid sel...

CONTEXT The majority of prior studies examining intimate partner abuse in the emergency department (ED) setting have been conducted in large, urban tertiary care settings and may not reflect the experiences of women seen at community hospital EDs, which treat the majority of ED patients in the United States. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of intimate partner abuse among female patients...

OBJECTIVE The present study compared reported histories and severity of child sexual abuse, child physical abuse, and both, in college men and women. METHOD Four hundred and eighty-six consenting undergraduates completed measures of suicidality, sexual abuse (SA), and physical abuse (PA). Based on their responses, they were categorized into 12 mutually exclusive groups: no PA/no SA (n = 234),...

BACKGROUND Although child abuse is associated with obesity, it is not known whether early abuse increases risk of type 2 diabetes. PURPOSE To investigate associations of child and adolescent abuse with adult diabetes. METHODS Proportional hazards models were used to examine associations of lifetime abuse reported in 2001 with risk of diabetes from 1989 to 2005 among 67,853 women in the Nurs...

This study compared retrospective reports of childhood sexual and physical abuse as assessed by two measures: the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), which uses a Likert-type scaling approach, and the Computer Assisted Maltreatment Inventory (CAMI), which employs a behaviorally specific means of assessment. Participants included 1,195 undergraduate students recruited from three geographically...

The objective of this study was to develop and validate a screening instrument (Abuse Assessment Questionnaire) to estimate the prevalence of physical abuse in a cohort of pregnant women in a district of Sri Lanka. The samples of 1200 pregnant women were identified by using a cluster sampling technique. Public health midwives (primary healthcare workers) were selected as interviewers and the an...

Physical abuse in school has lifelong consequences affecting child health and educational achievements. A study was designed to assess the prevalence of physical abuse experienced by pupils in basic-education schools in Aden, Yemen, and to examine the risk factors associated with it. A cross-sectional study covering 1066 pupils in 7th-9th grades from 8 schools in different districts of Aden gov...

BACKGROUND Studies demonstrating an association between childhood trauma and psychosis in adulthood have not systematically explored gender differences. AIMS To investigate gender differences in the prevalence of childhood sexual and physical abuse among people with psychosis in comparison with healthy controls. METHOD The Childhood Experiences of Care and Abuse Questionnaire was completed ...