Child maltreatment associates with violent victimization in young adulthood: a Brazilian birth cohort study

• Autor: Bordignon, Eveline ; Miranda, Vanessa Iribarrem Avena ; de Mola Zanatti, Christian Loret ; Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista ; da Silva, Helen Denise Gonçalves ; Wehrmeister, Fernando César ; Murray, Joseph
• Assuntos: Adolescent ; Adolescent mothers ; Adolescents ; Age ; Aggression ; Brazil - epidemiology ; Care and treatment ; Child Abuse ; Child abuse & neglect ; Childhood ; Childhood factors ; Children ; Cohort ; Cohort Studies ; Community ; Context ; Crime Victims ; Domestic Violence ; Emotional abuse ; Families & family life ; Female ; Females ; Gender-based violence ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Life events ; Longitudinal studies ; Low income groups ; Male ; Males ; Maltreatment ; Mental health ; Population studies ; Prospective Studies ; Psychological aspects ; Regression analysis ; Risk factors ; Sexual abuse ; Sexual assault ; Sociodemographics ; Stress ; Trauma ; Urban population ; Variables ; Victimization ; Violence ; Women ; Young Adult ; Young adulthood ; Young adults
• É parte de: BMC public health, 2023-11, Vol.23 (1), p.2287-2287, Article 2287
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• Descrição: Maltreatment in childhood may leave people vulnerable to further experiences of violence and more severe effects of stress later in life. Longitudinal studies of risk for violent victimisation after maltreatment are lacking in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to quantify the risk for violent victimization in the family and community in young adulthood following experiences of childhood maltreatment (experiences of physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect) up to age 15 years in an urban Brazilian population. 3246 participants in a prospective, population-based birth cohort study in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were assessed at birth, 15 and 22 years. Sociodemographic factors were reported by mothers at birth and adolescents at age 15 years. Maltreatment and violent victimisation were self-reported in confidential questionnaires at 15 and 22, respectively. Multinomial logistic regression analyses estimated the association between having experienced any maltreatment and later experiences of family and community violence in young adulthood (no adult violence, violence only in the family context, only in the community, or both violence in the family and community), adjusting for sociodemographic factors. 39% of females and 27% of males reported any maltreatment up to age 15 years. At 22 years, rates of past year violence in the family or community were 17.6% for females and 20.2% for males. Maltreatment was strongly associated with community violence (Females: OR = 2.96, CI = 1.83-4.80; Males: OR = 2.01, 95%CI = 1.01-4.00) and its co-occurrence with family violence (Females: OR = 2.33, 95%CI = 1.34-4.04; Males: OR = 3.20, 95%CI = 1.82-5.65) in young adulthood, after adjustment for background sociodemographic factors. Childhood maltreatment is an important risk factor for later violent victimisation in both the family and community context. The effects of repeated trauma through the life-course needs research and clinical attention.
  
• Editor: England: BioMed Central Ltd
  
• Idioma: Inglês