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Epidemiological Study of Violence against Children and Its Increase during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The aim of this study was to identify the epidemiological profiles of violence against children, victims, and their aggressors, and their correlations between socioeconomic and demographic factors analyzed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional, retrospective observation...

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Autores principales: de Oliveira, Stela Maria Tavolieri, Galdeano, Ewerton Alexandre, da Trindade, Evelynne Maria Gomes Galvão, Fernandez, Rafael Saad, Buchaim, Rogerio Leone, Buchaim, Daniela Vieira, da Cunha, Marcelo Rodrigues, Passos, Saulo Duarte
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639362
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910061
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author de Oliveira, Stela Maria Tavolieri
Galdeano, Ewerton Alexandre
da Trindade, Evelynne Maria Gomes Galvão
Fernandez, Rafael Saad
Buchaim, Rogerio Leone
Buchaim, Daniela Vieira
da Cunha, Marcelo Rodrigues
Passos, Saulo Duarte
author_facet de Oliveira, Stela Maria Tavolieri
Galdeano, Ewerton Alexandre
da Trindade, Evelynne Maria Gomes Galvão
Fernandez, Rafael Saad
Buchaim, Rogerio Leone
Buchaim, Daniela Vieira
da Cunha, Marcelo Rodrigues
Passos, Saulo Duarte
author_sort de Oliveira, Stela Maria Tavolieri
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description The aim of this study was to identify the epidemiological profiles of violence against children, victims, and their aggressors, and their correlations between socioeconomic and demographic factors analyzed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional, retrospective observational study based on a review of Individual Notification Forms from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases, including child victims of violence, under 18 years, assisted by a pediatric emergency service in Brazil, from 2016–2020. Data were stratified, then statistical analysis was performed using the two-proportion equality test and the Chi-square test, with p < 0.05 and a 95% confidence interval. A total of 609 notifications were analyzed and a prevalence of sexual violence (63.2%) was reported. The prevalent profile of victim was female (76.7%), aged between 2–9 years (38.1%) and 14–18 years (35.6%). The violence occurs in the victim’s home (58.9%). The prevalent profile of perpetrator was male (82.4%), young adolescent (59.2%), living as family (64%), mainly the parents (18.4%). No correlation was found between the classified socioeconomic and demographic variables and violence. There was an increase in notifications during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the same period in the previous year; self-harm was reported in 59.7% of physical violence in 2020. Prevalence of sexual violence was higher for females, aged between 2–9 and 14–18 years, victimized in their homes, by male offenders, living as family, mainly by their parents. No association was found between child violence and the socioeconomic and demographic.
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spelling pubmed-85079362021-10-13 Epidemiological Study of Violence against Children and Its Increase during the COVID-19 Pandemic de Oliveira, Stela Maria Tavolieri Galdeano, Ewerton Alexandre da Trindade, Evelynne Maria Gomes Galvão Fernandez, Rafael Saad Buchaim, Rogerio Leone Buchaim, Daniela Vieira da Cunha, Marcelo Rodrigues Passos, Saulo Duarte Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The aim of this study was to identify the epidemiological profiles of violence against children, victims, and their aggressors, and their correlations between socioeconomic and demographic factors analyzed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional, retrospective observational study based on a review of Individual Notification Forms from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases, including child victims of violence, under 18 years, assisted by a pediatric emergency service in Brazil, from 2016–2020. Data were stratified, then statistical analysis was performed using the two-proportion equality test and the Chi-square test, with p < 0.05 and a 95% confidence interval. A total of 609 notifications were analyzed and a prevalence of sexual violence (63.2%) was reported. The prevalent profile of victim was female (76.7%), aged between 2–9 years (38.1%) and 14–18 years (35.6%). The violence occurs in the victim’s home (58.9%). The prevalent profile of perpetrator was male (82.4%), young adolescent (59.2%), living as family (64%), mainly the parents (18.4%). No correlation was found between the classified socioeconomic and demographic variables and violence. There was an increase in notifications during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the same period in the previous year; self-harm was reported in 59.7% of physical violence in 2020. Prevalence of sexual violence was higher for females, aged between 2–9 and 14–18 years, victimized in their homes, by male offenders, living as family, mainly by their parents. No association was found between child violence and the socioeconomic and demographic. MDPI 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8507936/ /pubmed/34639362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910061 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Buchaim, Daniela Vieira
da Cunha, Marcelo Rodrigues
Passos, Saulo Duarte
Epidemiological Study of Violence against Children and Its Increase during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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