Citation

Kassima K, Kasim MS. Child Abuse Negl. 1995; 19(7): 793-799.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

This paper describes a case note and interview study of a cross sectional sample comprised of all children seen and confirmed as being sexually abused between June 1985 and December 1990 by the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Team of Kuala Lumpur General Hospital. A total of 101 cases, which represented 18.2% of all child abuse cases, were seen together with their accompanying adults. Information about ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family constellation, relationship of perpetrator to the child, and reported psychosocial factors that could have contributed towards the abuse were recorded. The Indian ethnicity group was found to be overrepresented. The mean age of children was 6-8 years, SD 4.1, with age ranging 1.5-16 years. Forty-one and one-half percent were in the age range 5-9 years. Among the important associated psychosocial factors found were the absence of another adult at home, unemployment, and history of drug abuse among the perpetrators. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Child Abuse & Neglect, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Elsevier Science)

Foreign Countries
1980s
1990s
Sexual Assault Victim
Sexual Assault Causes
Child Abuse Causes
Child Abuse Victim
Child Sexual Abuse Causes
Child Sexual Abuse Victim
Child Victim
Juvenile Victim
Early Childhood
Early Adolescence
Late Childhood
Late Adolescence
Middle Childhood
Psychosocial Factors
Asian Child
Asian Juvenile
Asian Victim
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