Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada.
Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council , Cape Town, South Africa.
Glob Health Action. 2021 Jan 1;14(1):1857084. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1857084.
: Children with disabilities are more likely to experience violence or injury at school and at home, but there is little evidence from Central Asia. : To describe the prevalence of disability and associations with peer violence perpetration and victimization, depression, corporal punishment, school performance and school attendance, among middle school children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. : This is a secondary analysis of data gathered in the course of evaluations of interventions to prevent peer violence conducted in Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the 'What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls Global Programme'. In Pakistan, the research was conducted in 40 schools, and disability was assessed at midline in 1516 interviews with Grade 7s. In Afghanistan, the data were from the baseline study conducted in 11 schools with 770 children. Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling was used to assess associations with disability. : In Afghanistan, the prevalence of disability was much higher for girls (22.1%) than boys (12.9%), while in Pakistan 6.0% of boys and girls reported a disability. Peer violence victimization was strongly associated with disability in Afghanistan and marginally associated in Pakistan. In Pakistan, perpetration of peer violence was associated with disability. In both countries, disability was significantly associated with higher depression scores. Food insecurity was strongly associated with disability in Afghanistan. : Disability is highly prevalent in Afghanistan and Pakistan schools and this is associated with a greater risk of experiencing and perpetrating peer violence. It is important to ensure that all children can benefit from school-based prevention interventions.
: 残疾儿童在学校和家庭中更容易遭受暴力或伤害,但来自中亚的证据很少。 : 描述残疾的流行程度,以及与同伴暴力侵害和受害、抑郁、体罚、学业成绩和出勤率的关联,在巴基斯坦和阿富汗的中学生中。 : 这是对在巴基斯坦和阿富汗进行的预防同伴暴力干预措施评估中收集的数据进行的二次分析,这些干预措施是“防止暴力侵害妇女和女童全球方案”的一部分。在巴基斯坦,研究在 40 所学校进行,在与 7 年级学生进行的 1516 次访谈中,在中期评估残疾情况。在阿富汗,数据来自在 11 所学校进行的基线研究,涉及 770 名儿童。广义线性混合模型用于评估与残疾的关联。 : 在阿富汗,残疾女孩的比例(22.1%)远高于男孩(12.9%),而在巴基斯坦,有 6.0%的男孩和女孩报告有残疾。在阿富汗,同伴暴力受害与残疾密切相关,而在巴基斯坦则略有相关。在巴基斯坦,同伴暴力侵害与残疾有关。在这两个国家,残疾与更高的抑郁评分显著相关。在阿富汗,粮食不安全与残疾密切相关。 : 残疾在阿富汗和巴基斯坦学校中非常普遍,这与遭受和实施同伴暴力的风险增加有关。重要的是要确保所有儿童都能从学校为基础的预防干预措施中受益。