Leventhal J M, Egerter S A, Murphy J M
Am J Dis Child. 1984 Nov;138(11):1034-9. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1984.02140490034008.
We performed a case-control study to examine the relationship of child abuse to several perinatal risk factors. Cases were children who had been born at Yale-New Haven (Conn) Hospital and were reported for physical abuse to the Hospital's Child Abuse Committee. For each case, a control was chosen from the hospital's log of births and matched according to five demographic variables. We identified 117 case-control pairs. No relationship was found between either prematurity or low birth weight and child abuse. In contrast, there was an association between child abuse and young maternal age (both at the birth of the index child and at the birth of the first child). We conclude that prematurity and low birth weight are not risk factors for physical abuse but that young maternal age is related to abuse.
我们进行了一项病例对照研究，以检验虐待儿童与多种围产期危险因素之间的关系。病例为在耶鲁-纽黑文（康涅狄格州）医院出生且被报告遭受身体虐待并提交至医院虐待儿童委员会的儿童。对于每一个病例，从医院的出生记录中选取一名对照，并根据五个人口统计学变量进行匹配。我们确定了117对病例对照。未发现早产或低出生体重与虐待儿童之间存在关联。相比之下，虐待儿童与母亲年龄较小（无论是在索引儿童出生时还是在第一个孩子出生时）之间存在关联。我们得出结论，早产和低出生体重不是身体虐待的危险因素，但母亲年龄较小与虐待行为有关。
