Citation

Quille-Mamani GM, Quispe-Prieto SC, Navarro ER. J. Med. Life 2023; 16(1): 110-120.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Carol Davila University Press)

DOI

10.25122/jml-2022-0262

PMID

36873115

PMCID

PMC9979187

Abstract

The study's objective was to investigate the factors associated with child and adolescent abuse in the MAMIS program at Hipólito Unanue Hospital in the Tacna-Peru region during 2019-2021. The study used a quantitative, retrospective, cross-sectional, and correlational approach to analyze 174 cases of child abuse. The study found that the majority of child abuse cases involved children between the ages of 12-17 (57.4%), with a secondary level of education (51.15%), females (56.9%), and not consuming alcohol or drugs (88.5%). Prevalent household characteristics included single-parent families (48.28%), parents aged 30-59 (58.5%), divorced (37.3%), with secondary level of education (68.9%), independent occupation (64.9%), no history of parental violence (91.3%), no addiction or substance abuse issues (95.4%), and no psychiatric disorders (95.4%). The most common types of abuse were psychological (93.68%), followed by neglect or abandonment (38.51%), physical (37.93%), and sexual (27.0%). The study determined a significant relationship (95% confidence level) between socio-demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, and substance use, and specific types of child abuse.

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescent; Child; Humans; Female; Cross-Sectional Studies; Retrospective Studies; child abuse; *Child Abuse; disadvantaged adolescent; disadvantaged child; Hospitals, Public; MAMIS program; Peru