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Risk factors of child physical abuse by parents with mixed anxiety-depressive disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder
Katija Kalebić Jakupčević
; University Hospital Split, Croatia
Marina Ajduković
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
Aim To determine the risk that parents with mixed anxiety
and depressive disorder (MADD) or posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) will physically abuse their child and evaluate
the specific contribution of mental health, perceived
social support, experience of childhood abuse, and attributes
of family relations to the risk of child physical abuse.
Method The study conducted in 2007 included men
(n = 25) and women (n = 25) with a diagnosis of MADD,
men with a diagnosis of PTSD (n = 30), and a control sample
of parents from the general population (n = 100, 45
men and 55 women) with children of elementary school
age. General Information Questionnaire, Child Abuse Experience
Inventory, Perceived Social Support Scale, and the
Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI) Clinical Abuse Scale
were used.
Results Total results on the Clinical Abuse Scale of the
CAPI indicated higher risk of child physical abuse in parents
with MADD (273.3 ± 13.6) and in fathers with PTSD
(333.21 ± 17.98) than in parents from the general population
(79.6 ± 9.9) (F = 110.40, P < 0.001; tPTSD,MADD = 13.73,
P < 0.001). A hierarchical regression analysis showed that
the greatest predictors in the multivariate model were
mental health difficulties, poorer economic status, poor
social support, and physical and verbal aggression in partner
conflicts.
Conclusion Parents with MADD and PTSD exhibit high risk
of child abuse. Since parents with PTSD have significantly
higher risk of child abuse than parents with MADD, further
large-sample research is needed to clarify the relationship
between PTSD intensity and the risk of child abuse
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
71422
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.2.2011.
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