Cargando…

Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors

BACKGROUND: Violence against children is a deep-rooted social problem in India. The problem is also related to economic as well as cultural beliefs and practices. The objective of this study was to ascertain the prevalence and nature of violence experienced by the children in families in Tripura, In...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Deb, Sibnath, Modak, Subhasis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2010
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483193
http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v2i1.31
_version_ 1782208025326518272
author Deb, Sibnath
Modak, Subhasis
author_facet Deb, Sibnath
Modak, Subhasis
author_sort Deb, Sibnath
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Violence against children is a deep-rooted social problem in India. The problem is also related to economic as well as cultural beliefs and practices. The objective of this study was to ascertain the prevalence and nature of violence experienced by the children in families in Tripura, India and its relationship with socio-economic factors. METHODS: A group of 320 children (160 males and 160 females) studying in Class VIII and IX and aged between 14-19 participated in the study after obtaining their informed consent from eight randomly selected English and Bengali medium schools in Agartala, Tripura (India). Data were collected by using a specially designed 'Semi-structured Questionnaire. RESULTS: Findings revealed that about 20.9% (67/320), 21.9% (70/230) and 18.1% (58/230) of the children experienced psychological, physical and sexual violence respectively. Male children were more likely to be victims of psychological and physical violence while female children experienced more sexual violence (p less than 0.01).Further analysis of data revealed some relationship between violence against children and nuclear family(p was less than 0.01),uncongenial and/or disturbed family environment (p was less than 0.01)and dominating, short-tempered and/or aggressive parent personality (p was less than 0.01),irrespective of the nature of the violence. Physical violence was found to be more prevalent in high income families (p was less than 0.01) while children from the lower income group of families experienced more psychological violence (p was less than 0.01). Sexual violence was found to be equally prevalent in all socio-economic groups. The study also clearly indicated that academic performance of violence-experienced children, irrespective of nature of violence and socio-economic groups was poor compared to academic performance of non-violence-experienced children (p was less than 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: About one-fifth of the children under study did experience violence in Tripura. Findings speak in favor of an intervention program for creating awareness among parents and teachers about the issue of violence against children, targeted at parents when they meet for periodic parent-teachers meetings in the educational institutions.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3134897
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2010
publisher Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-31348972011-09-20 Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors Deb, Sibnath Modak, Subhasis J Inj Violence Res Injury & Violence BACKGROUND: Violence against children is a deep-rooted social problem in India. The problem is also related to economic as well as cultural beliefs and practices. The objective of this study was to ascertain the prevalence and nature of violence experienced by the children in families in Tripura, India and its relationship with socio-economic factors. METHODS: A group of 320 children (160 males and 160 females) studying in Class VIII and IX and aged between 14-19 participated in the study after obtaining their informed consent from eight randomly selected English and Bengali medium schools in Agartala, Tripura (India). Data were collected by using a specially designed 'Semi-structured Questionnaire. RESULTS: Findings revealed that about 20.9% (67/320), 21.9% (70/230) and 18.1% (58/230) of the children experienced psychological, physical and sexual violence respectively. Male children were more likely to be victims of psychological and physical violence while female children experienced more sexual violence (p less than 0.01).Further analysis of data revealed some relationship between violence against children and nuclear family(p was less than 0.01),uncongenial and/or disturbed family environment (p was less than 0.01)and dominating, short-tempered and/or aggressive parent personality (p was less than 0.01),irrespective of the nature of the violence. Physical violence was found to be more prevalent in high income families (p was less than 0.01) while children from the lower income group of families experienced more psychological violence (p was less than 0.01). Sexual violence was found to be equally prevalent in all socio-economic groups. The study also clearly indicated that academic performance of violence-experienced children, irrespective of nature of violence and socio-economic groups was poor compared to academic performance of non-violence-experienced children (p was less than 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: About one-fifth of the children under study did experience violence in Tripura. Findings speak in favor of an intervention program for creating awareness among parents and teachers about the issue of violence against children, targeted at parents when they meet for periodic parent-teachers meetings in the educational institutions. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2010-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3134897/ /pubmed/21483193 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v2i1.31 Text en Copyright © 2010, KUMS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Injury & Violence
Deb, Sibnath
Modak, Subhasis
Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors
title Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors
title_full Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors
title_fullStr Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors
title_short Prevalence of Violence against Children in Families in Tripura and Its Relationship with Socio-economic Factors
title_sort prevalence of violence against children in families in tripura and its relationship with socio-economic factors
topic Injury & Violence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483193
http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v2i1.31
work_keys_str_mv AT debsibnath prevalenceofviolenceagainstchildreninfamiliesintripuraanditsrelationshipwithsocioeconomicfactors
AT modaksubhasis prevalenceofviolenceagainstchildreninfamiliesintripuraanditsrelationshipwithsocioeconomicfactors