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Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study
BACKGROUND: Maltreatment in childhood may leave people vulnerable to further experiences of violence and more severe effects of stress later in life. Longitudinal studies of risk for violent victimisation after maltreatment are lacking in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10658884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37985981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17245-8 |
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author | Bordignon, Eveline Miranda, Vanessa Iribarrem Avena de Mola Zanatti, Christian Loret Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista da Silva, Helen Denise Gonçalves Wehrmeister, Fernando César Murray, Joseph |
author_facet | Bordignon, Eveline Miranda, Vanessa Iribarrem Avena de Mola Zanatti, Christian Loret Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista da Silva, Helen Denise Gonçalves Wehrmeister, Fernando César Murray, Joseph |
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description | BACKGROUND: Maltreatment in childhood may leave people vulnerable to further experiences of violence and more severe effects of stress later in life. Longitudinal studies of risk for violent victimisation after maltreatment are lacking in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to quantify the risk for violent victimization in the family and community in young adulthood following experiences of childhood maltreatment (experiences of physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect) up to age 15 years in an urban Brazilian population. METHODS: 3246 participants in a prospective, population-based birth cohort study in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were assessed at birth, 15 and 22 years. Sociodemographic factors were reported by mothers at birth and adolescents at age 15 years. Maltreatment and violent victimisation were self-reported in confidential questionnaires at 15 and 22, respectively. Multinomial logistic regression analyses estimated the association between having experienced any maltreatment and later experiences of family and community violence in young adulthood (no adult violence, violence only in the family context, only in the community, or both violence in the family and community), adjusting for sociodemographic factors. RESULTS: 39% of females and 27% of males reported any maltreatment up to age 15 years. At 22 years, rates of past year violence in the family or community were 17.6% for females and 20.2% for males. Maltreatment was strongly associated with community violence (Females: OR = 2.96, CI = 1.83–4.80; Males: OR = 2.01, 95%CI = 1.01-4.00) and its co-occurrence with family violence (Females: OR = 2.33, 95%CI = 1.34–4.04; Males: OR = 3.20, 95%CI = 1.82–5.65) in young adulthood, after adjustment for background sociodemographic factors. CONCLUSION: Childhood maltreatment is an important risk factor for later violent victimisation in both the family and community context. The effects of repeated trauma through the life-course needs research and clinical attention. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-17245-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-106588842023-11-20 Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study Bordignon, Eveline Miranda, Vanessa Iribarrem Avena de Mola Zanatti, Christian Loret Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista da Silva, Helen Denise Gonçalves Wehrmeister, Fernando César Murray, Joseph BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Maltreatment in childhood may leave people vulnerable to further experiences of violence and more severe effects of stress later in life. Longitudinal studies of risk for violent victimisation after maltreatment are lacking in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to quantify the risk for violent victimization in the family and community in young adulthood following experiences of childhood maltreatment (experiences of physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect) up to age 15 years in an urban Brazilian population. METHODS: 3246 participants in a prospective, population-based birth cohort study in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were assessed at birth, 15 and 22 years. Sociodemographic factors were reported by mothers at birth and adolescents at age 15 years. Maltreatment and violent victimisation were self-reported in confidential questionnaires at 15 and 22, respectively. Multinomial logistic regression analyses estimated the association between having experienced any maltreatment and later experiences of family and community violence in young adulthood (no adult violence, violence only in the family context, only in the community, or both violence in the family and community), adjusting for sociodemographic factors. RESULTS: 39% of females and 27% of males reported any maltreatment up to age 15 years. At 22 years, rates of past year violence in the family or community were 17.6% for females and 20.2% for males. Maltreatment was strongly associated with community violence (Females: OR = 2.96, CI = 1.83–4.80; Males: OR = 2.01, 95%CI = 1.01-4.00) and its co-occurrence with family violence (Females: OR = 2.33, 95%CI = 1.34–4.04; Males: OR = 3.20, 95%CI = 1.82–5.65) in young adulthood, after adjustment for background sociodemographic factors. CONCLUSION: Childhood maltreatment is an important risk factor for later violent victimisation in both the family and community context. The effects of repeated trauma through the life-course needs research and clinical attention. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-17245-8. BioMed Central 2023-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10658884/ /pubmed/37985981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17245-8 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 Bordignon, Eveline Miranda, Vanessa Iribarrem Avena de Mola Zanatti, Christian Loret Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista da Silva, Helen Denise Gonçalves Wehrmeister, Fernando César Murray, Joseph Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study |
title | Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study |
title_full | Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study |
title_fullStr | Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study |
title_short | Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study |
title_sort | child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a brazilian birth cohort study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10658884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37985981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17245-8 |
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