Victimization by Caregivers: Prevalence and Risk Factors in Chilean Children and Adolescents

This study examined the prevalence and risk factors associated to victimization by caregivers in a national large sample of Chilean children and adolescents. 19,687 children and adolescents aged 12–17, selected by random probability sampling of 699 public schools in Chile who were surveyed by traine...

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Autores principales: Portilla-Saavedra, Diego, Pinto-Cortez, Cristián, Guerra, Cristóbal, Cárdenas, Fabiola Peña
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9454106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36071482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00509-3
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author Portilla-Saavedra, Diego
Pinto-Cortez, Cristián
Guerra, Cristóbal
Cárdenas, Fabiola Peña
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description This study examined the prevalence and risk factors associated to victimization by caregivers in a national large sample of Chilean children and adolescents. 19,687 children and adolescents aged 12–17, selected by random probability sampling of 699 public schools in Chile who were surveyed by trained interviewers. Victimization by Caregivers was evaluated through a module of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ). The prevalence (12 months) for physical abuse were (12.9%), for emotional abuse (27.9%), neglect (5.3%) and parental interference (3.5%). The results suggest as risk factors, sex, age, migration status, disability, geographical location, and type of school. The findings highlight the urgent need to address the issue of child maltreatment and victimization by caregivers in Chilean society and minimize its impact.
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spelling pubmed-94541062022-09-09 Victimization by Caregivers: Prevalence and Risk Factors in Chilean Children and Adolescents Portilla-Saavedra, Diego Pinto-Cortez, Cristián Guerra, Cristóbal Cárdenas, Fabiola Peña Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research This study examined the prevalence and risk factors associated to victimization by caregivers in a national large sample of Chilean children and adolescents. 19,687 children and adolescents aged 12–17, selected by random probability sampling of 699 public schools in Chile who were surveyed by trained interviewers. Victimization by Caregivers was evaluated through a module of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ). The prevalence (12 months) for physical abuse were (12.9%), for emotional abuse (27.9%), neglect (5.3%) and parental interference (3.5%). The results suggest as risk factors, sex, age, migration status, disability, geographical location, and type of school. The findings highlight the urgent need to address the issue of child maltreatment and victimization by caregivers in Chilean society and minimize its impact. BioMed Central 2022-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9454106/ /pubmed/36071482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00509-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (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.
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title_short Victimization by Caregivers: Prevalence and Risk Factors in Chilean Children and Adolescents
title_sort victimization by caregivers: prevalence and risk factors in chilean children and adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9454106/
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