TY - JOUR
T1 - Physical Maltreatment and Its Associated Factors Among Adolescents in Karachi, Pakistan
AU - Lakhdir, Maryam Pyar Ali
AU - Akber Ali, Naureen
AU - Hasnani, Fauzia Basaria
AU - Farooq, Salima
AU - Parpio, Yasmin
AU - Khan, Uzma Rahim
AU - Azam, Syed Iqbal
AU - Kadir, Muhammad Masood
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Ms. Serena Amyn Alidina for English language editing. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded from the Johns Hopkins University—Pakistan Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (grant number 5D43- TW007292-10) from the Fogarty International Center of the United States National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and the funder, and had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The content is exclusively the accountability of the author and does not signify the authorized views of the Johns Hopkins University—Pakistan Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program and do not represent the views of Fogarty or NIH.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - In many developing countries, physical child maltreatment is considered as an acceptable disciplinary strategy. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with physical maltreatment among adolescents in Karachi, Pakistan. A survey of 800 adolescents was done using a structured questionnaire adopted by The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Multiple linear regression methods were used to measure the factors associated with child physical maltreatment. The mean physical score was 17.5 ± 4.9, whereas the minimum and maximum score was 11 and 40, respectively. The total variability in physical scores was found to be 42% explained by child’s gender, child’s age, sibling abuse, verbal abuse/ quarreling within family, child’s height, socioeconomic wealth index, marital status, interaction between parental exposure to childhood abuse and physical fighting using hard object, interaction between parental education and age of mother, and interaction between parental history of psychiatric illness and physical fighting by parents.
AB - In many developing countries, physical child maltreatment is considered as an acceptable disciplinary strategy. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with physical maltreatment among adolescents in Karachi, Pakistan. A survey of 800 adolescents was done using a structured questionnaire adopted by The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Multiple linear regression methods were used to measure the factors associated with child physical maltreatment. The mean physical score was 17.5 ± 4.9, whereas the minimum and maximum score was 11 and 40, respectively. The total variability in physical scores was found to be 42% explained by child’s gender, child’s age, sibling abuse, verbal abuse/ quarreling within family, child’s height, socioeconomic wealth index, marital status, interaction between parental exposure to childhood abuse and physical fighting using hard object, interaction between parental education and age of mother, and interaction between parental history of psychiatric illness and physical fighting by parents.
KW - adolescent
KW - family
KW - physical abuse
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U2 - 10.1177/0886260519842177
DO - 10.1177/0886260519842177
M3 - Article
C2 - 30964383
AN - SCOPUS:85064250674
SN - 0886-2605
VL - 36
SP - NP8019-NP8033
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
IS - 15-16
ER -
