Department of Social Psychology, University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 21, Valencia, 46010, Spain.
Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Valencia, Dr. Moliner, 50, Burjassot, Valencia, 46100, Spain.
Child Abuse Negl. 2019 May;91:23-30. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.02.010. Epub 2019 Feb 26.
Alcohol outlet density has been linked to rates of substantiated maltreatment both cross-sectionally and over time. Most of these studies have been conducted in Anglo-Saxon countries, especially in the U.S., but other countries, where alcohol outlets and alcohol consumption may have different social meanings, are clearly underrepresented in the literature.
The aim of this study was to analyze whether alcohol outlet density is associated with neighborhood-level child maltreatment risk in a South-European city.
A longitudinal study was conducted in the city of Valencia (Spain). As spatial units, we used 552 census block groups. Family units with child maltreatment protection measures from 2004 to 2015 were geocoded (n = 1799).
A Bayesian spatio-temporal autoregression model was conducted to model the outcome variable.
Results indicated that, once controlled for other neighborhood-level characteristics, the influence of off-premise density and restaurant/cafe density were not relevant, while bar density showed a negative relationship with child maltreatment risk. Spatially lagged alcohol outlet variables were also not relevant in the model.
Our results suggest the importance of taking into account the cultural influences on the relationship between alcohol outlets and child maltreatment risk. Future cross-cultural research is needed for better understanding this relationship.
酒精销售点密度与虐待儿童事件发生率之间存在横断面和时间序列关系。这些研究大多在盎格鲁-撒克逊国家进行，尤其是在美国，但在其他国家，酒精销售点和酒精消费可能具有不同的社会意义，这些国家在文献中的代表性明显不足。
本研究旨在分析在一个南欧城市中，酒精销售点密度与邻里层面儿童虐待风险之间是否存在关联。
在西班牙巴伦西亚市进行了一项纵向研究。作为空间单位，我们使用了 552 个普查街区组。2004 年至 2015 年期间，对有儿童虐待保护措施的家庭单位进行了地理编码（n=1799）。
采用贝叶斯时空自回归模型来模拟因变量。
结果表明，在控制了其他邻里特征后，非现场销售密度和餐馆/咖啡馆密度的影响并不相关，而酒吧密度与儿童虐待风险呈负相关。模型中空间滞后的酒精销售点变量也不相关。
我们的研究结果表明，在考虑酒精销售点与儿童虐待风险之间的关系时，需要考虑文化影响。为了更好地理解这种关系，需要进行跨文化的进一步研究。
