1421 Relation Between Child Abuse by Parents in Children with Chronic Illness and Some of the Demographics Characters

Abstract

Objectives: Determine child abuse by parents in Children with chronic illness and its relation with some of the demographics characters. Methods: This is a descriptive-comparative study. 106 children(11- 18 year) with chronic illness(Asthma, epilepsy, leukemia, diabetes..) referred hospitals of Isfahan university of medical science were selected by convenient sampling. A questionnaire including demographic data and child abuse scale consist of questions in 4 domains (neglect, emotional, physical and sexual) used for data collection. The questionnaire validated by content validity and reliability of questionnaires was estimated 0.78 by Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was done by SPSS and using t test, correlation coefficient Pierson and spearman. Results: Research findings showed that most of kind child abuse by parents in these patients were: emotional abuse, neglect. Also contained a relation between sex, physical, emotional abuse (p<0.05). A direct relation between age and neglect (p = 0.002), also a direct relation between duration of disease and sexual abuse (p = 0.01), but there was a reverse relation between number of days of being Absent from school and neglect, physical abuse and total score of abuse (p<0.05).Also result showed that there was a significant relation between neglect and total scores of being abused and father's addiction. Conclusions: Significant meaningful between demographic characters such as, sex, age and duration of children's illness with child abuse in one side and parent's drug addiction on the other side was found. This reveals that some cultural points in community gives an important role to chronic illness in children to prepare doing abuse.