Children exposed to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence: A study of co-occurrence among Hong Kong Chinese families

dc.contributor.authorChan, K.
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-19T16:37:31Z
dc.date.available2014-09-19T16:37:31Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis study assessed the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and intimate partner violence (IPV) and examined the association between them. The cross-sectional study recruited a population-based sample of 1,094 children aged 12-17 years in Hong Kong. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from the children. The prevalence of occurrence of child abuse and neglect by parents and exposure to IPV in both the past year and lifetime was examined, and their correlates were assessed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression. The results show that 26% and 14.6% of child participants had been exposed to IPV physical assault, and 44.4% and 22.6% had been subjected to a parent’s corporal punishment or to physical maltreatment from a parent in their lifetime and the year preceding the study, respectively. Among those families characterized by IPV, 54.4% and 46.5% were involved in child physical maltreatment over the child’s lifetime and in the preceding year, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that children exposed to IPV were at higher risk of being victims of neglect, corporal punishment, and physical maltreatment or severe physical maltreatment by their parents than children who were not exposed to IPV, even when child and parent demographic factors were controlled for.en_US
dc.identifier.citationChan, K. (2011). Children exposed to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence: A study of co-occurrence among Hong Kong Chinese families. Child Abuse & Neglect, 35(7), 532-542en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/134461/1/Content.pdf?accept=1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/1738
dc.publisherChild Abuse & Neglecten_US
dc.subjectHong Kongen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectIntimate partner violenceen_US
dc.subjectco-occurrenceen_US
dc.subjectchild maltreatmenten_US
dc.subjectprevalenceen_US
dc.subjectexposure to violenceen_US
dc.titleChildren exposed to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence: A study of co-occurrence among Hong Kong Chinese familiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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