@article{ref1,
title="Childhood poly-victimization and children's health: a nationally representative study",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="2019",
author="Feng, Jui-Ying and Hsieh, Yi-Ping and Hwa, Hsiao-Lin and Huang, Ching-Yu and Wei, Hsi-Sheng and Shen, April Chiung-Tao",
volume="91",
number="",
pages="88-94",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Although research on the negative effects of childhood poly-victimization is substantial, few studies have examined the relationship between poly-victimization and younger children's physical health and diseases. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: This study examines the associations between poly-victimization and children's health problems requiring medical attention. <br><br>METHODS: A national stratified cluster random sampling was used to select and approach 25% of the total primary schools in Taiwan, and 49% of the approached schools agreed to participate in this study. We collected data with a self-report questionnaire from 6233 (4th-grade) students aged 10-11, covering every city and county in Taiwan. <br><br>RESULTS: Logistic regression analyses demonstrate a significant dose-response relationship between children's poly-victimization exposure and their health problems including hospitalization, serious injury, surgery, daily-medication requirements, heart murmurs, asthma, dizziness or fainting, allergies, kidney disease, therapies for special needs, smoking, and alcohol use. The results indicate that children's risk of having a health problem grew significantly with each increase in the number of victimization types that children experienced. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These research findings underscore the effect of poly-victimization on children's health problems requiring medical attention, and stress the need for both proper screening methods for children's exposure to poly-victimization and stronger awareness of poly-victimization's effects on health conditions in healthcare clinics.<br><br>Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.02.013",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.02.013"
}