Karbasi Zahra, Safdari Reza, Eslami Parisa
Department of Health Information Sciences, Faculty of Management and Medical Information Sciences Kerman University of Medical Sciences Kerman Iran.
Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
Health Sci Rep. 2022 Aug 17;5(5):e790. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.790. eCollection 2022 Sep.
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has become an international concern. The lives of children are severely affected by COVID-19 pandemic. There is evidence of a pandemic impact on violence against children. This scoping review study aimed to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on child abuse.
We searched PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases to retrieve related studies. Regarding the recent incident of COVID-19, the articles were reviewed from 2019 to June 1, 2021. The terms Child abuse and COVID-19 were used in the precise search technique of each database. The search techniques were created to work with any scientific database that used the keywords given.
In the initial search of scientific databases, 568 articles were retrieved. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria during the screening process, 16 papers were included in the scoping review. Twelve articles have mentioned the increase of physical, psychological, and neglect types of abuse. However, sexual violence has not been reported in any of the articles. Four articles reported a reduction in the incidence of child abuse.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis occurred in the form of an upsurge in violence toward children, since limits made to diminish the virus, in general, increased the danger to children. Numerous factors such as stress, poverty, financial situation, history of violence, school closures, and lack of contact with support organizations contribute to this phenomenon. Social action and support needed is the right of every child in need in this critical situation.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）的全球爆发已成为国际关注的问题。儿童的生活受到COVID-19大流行的严重影响。有证据表明大流行对暴力侵害儿童行为产生了影响。这项范围综述研究旨在调查COVID-19大流行对虐待儿童行为的影响。
我们检索了PubMed、Scopus和科学引文索引数据库以获取相关研究。鉴于COVID-19的近期事件，对2019年至2021年6月1日的文章进行了综述。在每个数据库的精确检索技术中使用了“虐待儿童”和“COVID-19”这两个术语。创建的检索技术适用于任何使用给定关键词的科学数据库。
在对科学数据库的初步检索中，检索到568篇文章。在筛选过程中应用纳入和排除标准后，16篇论文被纳入范围综述。12篇文章提到了身体虐待、心理虐待和忽视型虐待的增加。然而，所有文章均未报告性暴力情况。4篇文章报告了虐待儿童发生率的下降。
在COVID-19大流行期间，出现了一场危机，表现为针对儿童的暴力行为激增，因为为减少病毒传播而采取的限制措施总体上增加了儿童面临的危险。压力、贫困、财务状况、暴力史、学校关闭以及与支持组织缺乏联系等诸多因素导致了这一现象。在这种危急情况下，社会行动和所需的支持是每个有需要的儿童的权利。
