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Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis

BACKGROUND: Violence against children is a pervasive public health issue, with limited data available across multiple contexts. This study explores the rarely studied prevalence and dynamics around disclosure, reporting and help-seeking behaviours of children who ever experienced physical and/or sex...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Audrey, Peterman, Amber, Neijhoft, Anastasia Naomi, Buluma, Robert, Daban, Rocio Aznar, Islam, Aminul, Kainja, Esmie Tamanda Vilili, Kaloga, Inah Fatoumata, Kheam, They, Johnson, Afrooz Kaviani, Maternowska, M. Catherine, Potts, Alina, Rottanak, Chivith, Samnang, Chea, Shawa, Mary, Yoshikawa, Miho, Palermo, Tia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32616007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09069-7
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author Pereira, Audrey
Peterman, Amber
Neijhoft, Anastasia Naomi
Buluma, Robert
Daban, Rocio Aznar
Islam, Aminul
Kainja, Esmie Tamanda Vilili
Kaloga, Inah Fatoumata
Kheam, They
Johnson, Afrooz Kaviani
Maternowska, M. Catherine
Potts, Alina
Rottanak, Chivith
Samnang, Chea
Shawa, Mary
Yoshikawa, Miho
Palermo, Tia
author_facet Pereira, Audrey
Peterman, Amber
Neijhoft, Anastasia Naomi
Buluma, Robert
Daban, Rocio Aznar
Islam, Aminul
Kainja, Esmie Tamanda Vilili
Kaloga, Inah Fatoumata
Kheam, They
Johnson, Afrooz Kaviani
Maternowska, M. Catherine
Potts, Alina
Rottanak, Chivith
Samnang, Chea
Shawa, Mary
Yoshikawa, Miho
Palermo, Tia
author_sort Pereira, Audrey
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description BACKGROUND: Violence against children is a pervasive public health issue, with limited data available across multiple contexts. This study explores the rarely studied prevalence and dynamics around disclosure, reporting and help-seeking behaviours of children who ever experienced physical and/or sexual violence. METHODS: Using nationally-representative Violence Against Children Surveys in six countries: Cambodia, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania, we present descriptive statistics for prevalence of four outcomes among children aged 13–17 years: informal disclosure, knowledge of where to seek formal help, formal disclosure/help seeking and receipt of formal help. We ran country-specific multivariate logistic regressions predicting outcomes on factors at the individual, household and community levels. RESULTS: The prevalence of help-seeking behaviours ranged from 23 to 54% for informal disclosure, 16 to 28% for knowledge of where to seek formal help, under 1 to 25% for formal disclosure or help seeking, and 1 to 11% for receipt of formal help. Factors consistently correlated with promoting help-seeking behaviours included household number of adult females and absence of biological father, while those correlated with reduced help-seeking behaviours included being male and living in a female-headed household. Primary reasons for not seeking help varied by country, including self-blame, apathy and not needing or wanting services. CONCLUSIONS: Across countries examined, help-seeking and receipt of formal services is low for children experiencing physical and/or sexual violence, with few consistent factors identified which facilitated help-seeking. Further understanding of help seeking, alongside improved data quality and availability will aid prevention responses, including the ability to assist child survivors in a timely manner.
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spelling pubmed-73311312020-07-06 Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis Pereira, Audrey Peterman, Amber Neijhoft, Anastasia Naomi Buluma, Robert Daban, Rocio Aznar Islam, Aminul Kainja, Esmie Tamanda Vilili Kaloga, Inah Fatoumata Kheam, They Johnson, Afrooz Kaviani Maternowska, M. Catherine Potts, Alina Rottanak, Chivith Samnang, Chea Shawa, Mary Yoshikawa, Miho Palermo, Tia BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Violence against children is a pervasive public health issue, with limited data available across multiple contexts. This study explores the rarely studied prevalence and dynamics around disclosure, reporting and help-seeking behaviours of children who ever experienced physical and/or sexual violence. METHODS: Using nationally-representative Violence Against Children Surveys in six countries: Cambodia, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania, we present descriptive statistics for prevalence of four outcomes among children aged 13–17 years: informal disclosure, knowledge of where to seek formal help, formal disclosure/help seeking and receipt of formal help. We ran country-specific multivariate logistic regressions predicting outcomes on factors at the individual, household and community levels. RESULTS: The prevalence of help-seeking behaviours ranged from 23 to 54% for informal disclosure, 16 to 28% for knowledge of where to seek formal help, under 1 to 25% for formal disclosure or help seeking, and 1 to 11% for receipt of formal help. Factors consistently correlated with promoting help-seeking behaviours included household number of adult females and absence of biological father, while those correlated with reduced help-seeking behaviours included being male and living in a female-headed household. Primary reasons for not seeking help varied by country, including self-blame, apathy and not needing or wanting services. CONCLUSIONS: Across countries examined, help-seeking and receipt of formal services is low for children experiencing physical and/or sexual violence, with few consistent factors identified which facilitated help-seeking. Further understanding of help seeking, alongside improved data quality and availability will aid prevention responses, including the ability to assist child survivors in a timely manner. BioMed Central 2020-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7331131/ /pubmed/32616007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09069-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis 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/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://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.
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Pereira, Audrey
Peterman, Amber
Neijhoft, Anastasia Naomi
Buluma, Robert
Daban, Rocio Aznar
Islam, Aminul
Kainja, Esmie Tamanda Vilili
Kaloga, Inah Fatoumata
Kheam, They
Johnson, Afrooz Kaviani
Maternowska, M. Catherine
Potts, Alina
Rottanak, Chivith
Samnang, Chea
Shawa, Mary
Yoshikawa, Miho
Palermo, Tia
Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
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title_full Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
title_fullStr Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
title_full_unstemmed Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
title_short Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
title_sort disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32616007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09069-7
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