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Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country
BACKGROUND: Because of COVID-19 pandemic, families across the world are experiencing new stressors that threaten their health, and economic well-being. Such a stress may jeopardize parents-children relationship. We aim to investigate the magnitude of child physical maltreatment (CPM) by parents in E...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10339565/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37438727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04947-x |
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author | Abdeen, Mai SeifElDin Hashim, Mostafa Ahmad Ghanem, Marwa Mohamed El-Din, Nouran Yousef Salah Nagar, Zeinab Mohamed El |
author_facet | Abdeen, Mai SeifElDin Hashim, Mostafa Ahmad Ghanem, Marwa Mohamed El-Din, Nouran Yousef Salah Nagar, Zeinab Mohamed El |
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description | BACKGROUND: Because of COVID-19 pandemic, families across the world are experiencing new stressors that threaten their health, and economic well-being. Such a stress may jeopardize parents-children relationship. We aim to investigate the magnitude of child physical maltreatment (CPM) by parents in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic, to relate it to parents’ stress, and to identify other potential risk factors. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assessed parent-reported CPM and their personal experience of stress, depression, and anxiety among a sample of Egyptian parents using an electronic survey. It included sociodemographic data, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), and the Child physical maltreatment scale (CPMS). We also briefly assessed COVID-19 -related data. RESULTS: Out of 404 respondents, (62.9%) and (32.9%) reported performing minor and severe CPM toward their children during the past 3 months, respectively. The age of youngest child, and anxiety score were significantly correlated with both minor and severe forms of CPM. While number of children, and online education system ratings were only significantly correlated with severe CPM. Parental definition of CPM was significantly correlated to minor CPM, but not to severe CPM. CONCLUSIONS: CPM by parents is not uncommon in Egypt, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings highlight the importance of regular support and intervention that help parents learn parenting skills and the use of non-violent child disciplining methods. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-023-04947-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-103395652023-07-14 Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country Abdeen, Mai SeifElDin Hashim, Mostafa Ahmad Ghanem, Marwa Mohamed El-Din, Nouran Yousef Salah Nagar, Zeinab Mohamed El BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Because of COVID-19 pandemic, families across the world are experiencing new stressors that threaten their health, and economic well-being. Such a stress may jeopardize parents-children relationship. We aim to investigate the magnitude of child physical maltreatment (CPM) by parents in Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic, to relate it to parents’ stress, and to identify other potential risk factors. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assessed parent-reported CPM and their personal experience of stress, depression, and anxiety among a sample of Egyptian parents using an electronic survey. It included sociodemographic data, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21), and the Child physical maltreatment scale (CPMS). We also briefly assessed COVID-19 -related data. RESULTS: Out of 404 respondents, (62.9%) and (32.9%) reported performing minor and severe CPM toward their children during the past 3 months, respectively. The age of youngest child, and anxiety score were significantly correlated with both minor and severe forms of CPM. While number of children, and online education system ratings were only significantly correlated with severe CPM. Parental definition of CPM was significantly correlated to minor CPM, but not to severe CPM. CONCLUSIONS: CPM by parents is not uncommon in Egypt, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings highlight the importance of regular support and intervention that help parents learn parenting skills and the use of non-violent child disciplining methods. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12888-023-04947-x. BioMed Central 2023-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10339565/ /pubmed/37438727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04947-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Abdeen, Mai SeifElDin Hashim, Mostafa Ahmad Ghanem, Marwa Mohamed El-Din, Nouran Yousef Salah Nagar, Zeinab Mohamed El Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country |
title | Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country |
title_full | Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country |
title_fullStr | Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country |
title_full_unstemmed | Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country |
title_short | Parents’ self-reporting of Child Physical Maltreatment (CPM) in a low-middle-income country |
title_sort | parents’ self-reporting of child physical maltreatment (cpm) in a low-middle-income country |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10339565/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37438727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04947-x |
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