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Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran
BACKGROUND: Child abuse is an issue that has many physical and psychological consequences. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed and conducted to investigate the current situation regarding child abuse, which can be used as a guideline for planning future interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834803 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-2256 |
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author | Pirdehghan, Azar Vakili, Mahmood Rajabzadeh, Yavar Puyandehpour, Mohammad |
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description | BACKGROUND: Child abuse is an issue that has many physical and psychological consequences. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed and conducted to investigate the current situation regarding child abuse, which can be used as a guideline for planning future interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a descriptive, analytic cross-sectional study on 700 Yazd secondary school students in 2013, using a standardized self-administered questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using the SPSS v.19 software and appropriate statistical tests and logistic regression analysis. P values of < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Overall, 700 students (43%) were boys. Child abuse frequency was 93.5% (92.2% of boys and 94.4% of girls). The most common domains of child abuse among all students were neglect (83.8%), psychological (76.1%), physical (36.1%) and sexual (28.8 %), respectively. The most common domains of child abuse among female students were neglect (84.9%), psychological (82.3%), physical (32.5%) and sexual (31.5 %), and among male students, these were neglect (82.3%), psychological (67.9%), physical (41%) and sexual (25.3%). Demographic variables included substance abuse of parents, father’s education, parents living status and having other jobs, which were significantly related variables to child abuse and neglect (P value < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our study is the first investigation performed on patients with LCH and its possible association with EBV in Iran. Considering the P = 0.004, which is statistically significant, the findings do support the hypothesis of a possible role for EBV in the pathogenesis of LCH. These results are in accordance with several previous investigations, with positive findings. |
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spelling | pubmed-47333072016-02-01 Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran Pirdehghan, Azar Vakili, Mahmood Rajabzadeh, Yavar Puyandehpour, Mohammad Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Child abuse is an issue that has many physical and psychological consequences. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed and conducted to investigate the current situation regarding child abuse, which can be used as a guideline for planning future interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a descriptive, analytic cross-sectional study on 700 Yazd secondary school students in 2013, using a standardized self-administered questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using the SPSS v.19 software and appropriate statistical tests and logistic regression analysis. P values of < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. RESULTS: Overall, 700 students (43%) were boys. Child abuse frequency was 93.5% (92.2% of boys and 94.4% of girls). The most common domains of child abuse among all students were neglect (83.8%), psychological (76.1%), physical (36.1%) and sexual (28.8 %), respectively. The most common domains of child abuse among female students were neglect (84.9%), psychological (82.3%), physical (32.5%) and sexual (31.5 %), and among male students, these were neglect (82.3%), psychological (67.9%), physical (41%) and sexual (25.3%). Demographic variables included substance abuse of parents, father’s education, parents living status and having other jobs, which were significantly related variables to child abuse and neglect (P value < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our study is the first investigation performed on patients with LCH and its possible association with EBV in Iran. Considering the P = 0.004, which is statistically significant, the findings do support the hypothesis of a possible role for EBV in the pathogenesis of LCH. These results are in accordance with several previous investigations, with positive findings. Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2015-12-23 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4733307/ /pubmed/26834803 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-2256 Text en Copyright © 2015, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Pirdehghan, Azar Vakili, Mahmood Rajabzadeh, Yavar Puyandehpour, Mohammad Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran |
title | Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran |
title_full | Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran |
title_fullStr | Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran |
title_short | Child Abuse and Neglect Epidemiology in Secondary School Students of Yazd Province, Iran |
title_sort | child abuse and neglect epidemiology in secondary school students of yazd province, iran |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834803 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/ijpbs-2256 |
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