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Abstract
The current study was done on cases of children exposed for different
patterns of violence presenting to Menoufia University hospital asking for
medico- legal report during two years (from the first of December 2016 to the
end of November 2018) were included in the study after taking their valid written
consents for examination and photographing as regards:
- Socio-demographic data of victims and assailant
- Type of violence.
- Degree of injury.
- Possible risk factors.
- Measuring the level of CRP and cortisol in these patients.
- Outcome (cured, complicated, or died).
- Follow up of cases.
Clinical sheet was designed for cases of violence against children and data
were taken from the victims and /or their guardians including data about
sciodemographic characters of victims and assailants, then clinical examination
and required investigations were performed.
characteristics of the violence:
It was noticed that the majority of cases were of physical 76% while of
sexual type represented only 24%. Most violence occurred indoors. The majority
of violence occurred in repeated attacks.
characteristics of the victims in the study.
As regards gender, females represented 78.7% of the cases while males
represented 21.3%. Considering residence, most were cases from rural areas.
Regarding age groups, the most represented age group was 10-18 years 48%. The
lowest percentage was in the age groups<2 years and represented by 6.7%.
Regarding the marital status of the victims, they were single which
constituted 89.3% of the victims followed by married representing 10.7%.
As regard, parenteral status, divorced partners were the highest value
41.3%. Considering educational level, preschool and illiterate represented the
highest value(22.7 % for both). As regards occupation, students constituted the
majority of the cases. As regards socio-economic standards, it was noticed that
cases were of low standard represented38.7% followed by middle standard 37.3%
and the lowest were of high standard. There was no history of tobacco smoking in
most cases. Regarding family size the families contain more than 4 members
represented the majority.
Common risk factors of violence against children:
Considering family troubles represented 40%. There was positive history
of financial troubles in 29.3% of the cases. Immoral causes represented 26.7%
while psychological disturbances of the assailent represented 4% of all cases.
While no cases had physical or mental disability