Citation

Cappelleri JC, Eckenrode J, Powers JL. Am. J. Public Health 1993; 83(11): 1622-1624.

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, American Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8238691

PMCID

PMC1694876

Abstract

The epidemiology of child abuse was investigated with data from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. A statistical comparison of incidence rates suggested that age, family income, and ethnicity were risk factors for both sexual abuse and physical abuse, but county metrostatus was not. Gender was a risk factor for sexual abuse but not for physical abuse. A logistic regression analysis showed that ethnicity, county metrostatus, and a gender-by-income interaction distinguished sexual abuse from physical abuse.