Physical violence against children with disabilities: A Danish national birth cohort prospective study

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dc.contributor.authorElklit, A., Murphy, S., Skovgaard, C., & Lausten, M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-14T18:35:02Z
dc.date.available2023-03-14T18:35:02Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractBackground: Children with disabilities are at heightened risk of violence compared to their non-disabled peers. However, extant research suffers from several limitations, focusing on child abuse and one or few types of disability, ignoring conventional violent crimes. Objective: The aim was to assess 10 disabilities and to examine whether different disabilities vary in their risk of criminal victimization. Method: Using the Danish Psychiatric Case Register, the Criminal Register, and other population-based registers, we included nine birth cohorts (n = 570,351) and followed them until 18 years of age. We compared children exposed to violence with non-exposed children. We estimated odds ratios (ORs) for the disabilities and adjusted the ORs for several risk factors. Results: We identified 12,830 cases of reported violence (2.25% of the population) towards children and adolescents. Children with disabilities were overrepresented, as were boys and ethnic minorities. After controlling for risk factors, four disabilities had heightened risk for criminal violence: attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), brain injury, speech, and physical disabilities. When we compared risk factors controlling for the various disabilities, parental history of violence, family break-up, out-of-home placement, and parental unemployment contributed especially to the violence, while parental alcohol/drug abuse was no longer a predictor. Having several disabilities increased the risk of violence. Conclusions: Criminal victimization of children and adolescents with specific disabilities was common. However, compared to the previous decade, a considerable reduction of one-third has taken place. Four risk factors contributed particularly to the risk of violence; therefore, precautions should be taken to further reduce the violence.en_US
dc.identifier.citationElklit, A., Murphy, S., Skovgaard, C., & Lausten, M. (2023). Physical violence against children with disabilities: A Danish national birth cohort prospective study. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14(1), 2173764.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37052095/#:~:text=Based%20on%20data%20from%20nine,we%20controlled%20for%20risk%20factors
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5781
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatologyen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectvictims with disabilitiesen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectDenmarken_US
dc.subjectprospectiveen_US
dc.subjectnational birth cohorten_US
dc.titlePhysical violence against children with disabilities: A Danish national birth cohort prospective studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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