Gale J, Thompson R J, Moran T, Sack W H
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.
Child Abuse Negl. 1988;12(2):163-70. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(88)90024-5.
A retrospective record survey was performed using all child clients aged less than 7 years seen at a community mental health center during the period 1982-1984. The total number of 202 children fell into three groups: sexually abused (n = 37), physically abused (n = 35), and nonabused clinical children (n = 130). These groups were compared in order to learn more about sexual abuse in young children. Family background of both abused groups were similar to each other but differed from the nonabused group in having more factors related to family stress than the nonabused group. Clinical presentations of all the children overlapped a great deal symptomatically; however, the sexually abused children had a statistically significant higher frequency of inappropriate sexual behavior than the other two groups. Several characteristics of the abusive patterns suffered by the two abuse groups differed at or near statistical significance: sexually abused children were more often victimized in single acts by nonrelated child perpetrators than were physically abused children.
采用回顾性记录调查法，对1982年至1984年期间在一家社区心理健康中心就诊的所有7岁以下儿童客户进行了调查。202名儿童总数分为三组：性虐待组（n = 37）、身体虐待组（n = 35）和未受虐待的临床儿童组（n = 130）。对这些组进行比较，以便更多地了解幼儿性虐待情况。两个受虐组的家庭背景彼此相似，但与未受虐待组不同，它们与家庭压力相关的因素比未受虐待组更多。所有儿童的临床表现症状上有很大重叠；然而，性虐待儿童出现不当性行为的频率在统计学上显著高于其他两组。两个受虐组所遭受的虐待模式的几个特征在统计学意义上或接近统计学意义上存在差异：性虐待儿童比身体虐待儿童更常受到非亲属儿童犯罪者单次行为的侵害。
