Larson O W, Doris J, Alvarez W F
Child Abuse Negl. 1987;11(2):281-91. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(87)90068-8.
This paper reports findings from a study that was conducted in 1983 to determine the incidence and patterns of child maltreatment among migrant farm worker families who reside in or travel through the Atlantic coastal region known as the Eastern Stream. These results are based on responses to a multipurpose mailed questionnaire that was administered to a sample of 2,207 migrant educators. Educational personnel from 14 of the 22 Eastern Stream states participated in this survey, which was designed to elicit information on the incidence of maltreatment in this population. The survey considered 13 different indicators of child abuse and neglect and six maltreatment forms. Another segment of the instrumentation secured information on the migrant population with which the respondents had direct contact so that an incidence rate could be formulated. The study conclusively established that the incidence of child maltreatment rate among migrant farm worker families, as perceived by migrant educators, was substantially higher than the rate observed for the population as a whole or even for families with approximately the same socioeconomic status. Comparative data are presented to place this primary research result in perspective and a more precise overall incidence estimate is derived. Differential rates of abuse and neglect within the migrant population and the factors that contribute to them are also considered.
本文报告了一项于1983年开展的研究结果，该研究旨在确定居住在或途经被称为“东部溪流”的大西洋沿岸地区的流动农场工人家庭中儿童虐待的发生率和模式。这些结果基于对一份多用途邮寄问卷的回复，该问卷发放给了2207名流动教育工作者样本。“东部溪流”地区22个州中的14个州的教育人员参与了这项调查，该调查旨在获取有关该人群中虐待发生率的信息。该调查考虑了13种不同的儿童虐待和忽视指标以及六种虐待形式。调查工具的另一部分获取了受访者直接接触的流动人群的信息，以便制定发生率。该研究确凿地证实，流动教育工作者所感知的流动农场工人家庭中儿童虐待率，大大高于总体人口甚至社会经济地位大致相同的家庭中观察到的比率。文中呈现了比较数据以正确看待这一主要研究结果，并得出了更精确的总体发生率估计。还考虑了流动人群中虐待和忽视的差异率及其成因。
