Department of Public Policy, Faculty of Welfare Society, Kyoto Prefectural University, 1-5, Shimogamohangi-cyo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan.
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Dokkyo University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Soka-shi 340-0042, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 8;19(24):16476. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416476.
We sought to calculate the extra social costs resulting from child abuse in residential care facilities (RCFs) for children with disabilities (CWD) in Japan. We distributed a survey to 260 residential facilities for CWD in 2020 and obtained responses from 91 facilities. Among the children placed in these facilities, our estimates by four different criteria determined that 23-67% were affected by child abuse. We also estimated extra costs for each of the four criteria, which we estimated to average USD 647.7 million. This study is meaningful in that there are no existing official statistics or research findings on the extra costs of residential care due to child abuse in Japan.
我们旨在计算日本残疾儿童福利机构（RCF）中儿童虐待所导致的额外社会成本。我们于 2020 年向 260 家残疾儿童 RCF 分发了一份调查问卷，并收到了 91 家机构的回复。在这些机构中安置的儿童中，我们通过四项不同标准估计有 23-67%受到了儿童虐待的影响。我们还对每项标准的额外成本进行了估算，估计平均为 6.477 亿美元。这项研究具有重要意义，因为日本目前没有关于儿童虐待导致的福利机构额外成本的官方统计数据或研究结果。
