Harris Lottie G, Higgins Daryl J, Willis Megan L, Lawrence David, Meinck Franziska, Thomas Hannah J, Malacova Eva, Scott James G, Pacella Rosana, Haslam Divna M
Faculty of Education and Arts, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Child Maltreat. 2025 Aug;30(3):525-539. doi: 10.1177/10775595241297944. Epub 2024 Nov 5.
Research suggests that the dimensions of childhood maltreatment (type, age of onset, duration, frequency and perpetrator) play an important role in determining health and wellbeing outcomes, though little information is available on these dimensions for any care experienced cohorts. This study aimed to determine if any variation in maltreatment dimensions were experienced between two subsets of the nationally representative Australian Child Maltreatment Study, both of which reported childhood maltreatment histories: care-experienced ( = 358) and non-care-experienced ( = 4922). Using a series of independent t-tests and chi-square tests, we compared the two groups on seven dimensions (number of maltreatment types, range of maltreatment items, age of onset, duration, frequency, perpetrator number, and perpetrator type) for the five child maltreatment types (physical, emotional, sexual abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence). Results showed that the care-experienced group reported a higher intensity of maltreatment, being younger when maltreatment first started, experiencing greater variety of maltreatment types, for longer periods, more times and by more perpetrators than maltreated people with no care experience. We conclude that children and young people in out-of-home care experience maltreatment at a higher intensity than the rest of the population, which has implications for effective treatment.
研究表明，童年期虐待的各个维度（类型、开始年龄、持续时间、频率和施虐者）在决定健康和幸福结局方面起着重要作用，尽管对于任何有过照料经历的队列而言，关于这些维度的信息都很少。本研究旨在确定在具有全国代表性的澳大利亚儿童虐待研究的两个子集中，虐待维度是否存在差异，这两个子集都报告了童年期虐待史：有照料经历者（n = 358）和无照料经历者（n = 4922）。我们使用一系列独立t检验和卡方检验，就五种儿童虐待类型（身体虐待、情感虐待、性虐待、忽视以及接触家庭暴力）的七个维度（虐待类型数量、虐待项目范围、开始年龄、持续时间、频率、施虐者数量和施虐者类型）对两组进行了比较。结果显示，有照料经历的组报告的虐待强度更高，虐待首次开始时年龄更小，经历的虐待类型更多样，持续时间更长，频率更高，施虐者更多，而没有照料经历的受虐者情况则不然。我们得出结论，与其他人群相比，接受院外照料的儿童和年轻人遭受虐待的强度更高，这对有效治疗具有启示意义。
