OBJECTIVE Reports of childhood emotional maltreatment have increased greatly over the past decade. The objective of this research was to determine the types of emotional maltreatment substantiated in a community of US Army families residing temporarily in Germany. Such a description may help to improve the understanding of how a jurisdictional body defines emotional maltreatment in day-to-day p...

CONTEXT Drug abuse (DA) strongly runs in families. Does this result solely from genetic factors or does the family environment contribute? OBJECTIVE To determine the familial environmental contribution to the risk for DA. DESIGN Follow-up in 9 public databases (1961-2009) in siblings and spouses. SETTING Sweden. PARTICIPANTS A total of 137 199 sibling pairs and 7561 spousal pairs containing a p...

Spouse abuse is listed as a V code in DSM-IV-TR and worthy of further clinical investigation, although research has focused predominantly on the victims of family violence rather than the batterers themselves. This study tests the hypotheses that (a) batterers have a neurocognitive bias favoring negative affect (aggressive) stimuli and (b) batterers are more characterized by reactive than proac...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical, sociodemographic, and physical abuse-related factors adolescents who are referred by court child adolescent psychiatry clinics for early marriage.
 Methods: A total 115 girls aged over 15 years were included in study. Sociodemographic information was obtained with forms prepared interviewer. Participants also subjected psychometri...

The elderly abuse recognizing to be a substantial and growing public health problem worldwide. present study aims analyse the risk factors of in family environment Nijgadh Municipality. A descriptive cross-sectional has been carried out among 204 elders taken from community through simple random sampling method. data were collected face structured interview schedule 2021. binary logistic regres...

studies on wife abuse show that men committed violence behavior against their wives have experienced a high degree of violence in their childhood. children who have witnessed, their mothers being beaten in their adulthood; girls have tendency to tolerate the violence and boys perceive the abuse of wife as their right. the aim of the present article to study wife abuse and contributing factors i...

BACKGROUND Spouse abuse so called intimate partner violence (IPV) is a common problem in the world. This survey was conducted to identify IPV prevalence and related factors in district health centers in Hamadan, western Iran, in hope that, by identifying risk factors, preventive guidelines could be understood. METHODS In this descriptive analytic cross sectional study, 600 married women from ...