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ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2018

Lifetime and past-year prevalence of children's exposure to violence in 9 Balkan countries: the BECAN study.

George Nikolaidis, Kiki Petroulaki, Foteini Zarokosta, Antonia Tsirigoti, Altin Hazizaj, Enila Cenko, Jelena Brkic-Smigoc, Emir Vajzovic, Vaska Stancheva, Stefka Chincheva and 13 more

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George NikolaidisDepartment of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Centre for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Institute of Child Health, 7 Fokidos Str., 11526 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7017-0660
Kiki PetroulakiDepartment of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Centre for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Institute of Child Health, 7 Fokidos Str., 11526 Athens, Greece.
Foteini ZarokostaDepartment of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Centre for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Institute of Child Health, 7 Fokidos Str., 11526 Athens, Greece.
Antonia TsirigotiDepartment of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Centre for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Institute of Child Health, 7 Fokidos Str., 11526 Athens, Greece.
Altin HazizajChildren's Human Rights Centre of Albania, Tirana, Albania.
Enila CenkoChildren's Human Rights Centre of Albania, Tirana, Albania.
Jelena Brkic-SmigocFaculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Emir VajzovicFaculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vaska StanchevaDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, South-West University "N. Rilski", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Stefka ChinchevaDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, South-West University "N. Rilski", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Marina AjdukovicDepartment of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Miro RajterDepartment of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Marija RalevaUniversity Clinic of Psychiatry, University of Skopje, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Liljana TrpcevskaUniversity Clinic of Psychiatry, University of Skopje, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Maria RothSocial Work Department, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Imola AntalSocial Work Department, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Veronika IspanovicFaculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Natasha HanakFaculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Zeynep Olmezoglu-SofuogluAssociation of Emergency Ambulance Physicians, İzmir, Turkey.
Ismail Umit-BalAssociation of Emergency Ambulance Physicians, İzmir, Turkey.
Donata BianchiInstituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy.
Franziska MeinckCentre for Evidence-Based Interventions, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Kevin BrowneCentre for Forensic and Family Psychology (Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology), School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChildren's exposure to violence is a major public health issue. The Balkan epidemiological study on Child Abuse and Neglect project aimed to collect internationally comparable data on violence exposures in childhood.

methodsA three stage stratified random sample of 42,194 school-attending children (response rate: 66.7%) in three grades (aged 11, 13 and 16 years) was drawn from schools in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Greece, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. Children completed the ICAST-C questionnaire, which measures children's exposure to violence by any perpetrator.

resultsExposure rates for psychological violence were between 64.6% (FYROM) and 83.2% (Greece) for lifetime and 59.62% (Serbia) and 70.0% (Greece) for past-year prevalence. Physical violence exposure varied between 50.6% (FYROM) and 76.3% (Greece) for lifetime and 42.5% (FYROM) and 51.0% (Bosnia) for past-year prevalence. Sexual violence figures were highest for lifetime prevalence in Bosnia (18.6%) and lowest in FYROM (7.6%). Lifetime contact sexual violence was highest in Bosnia (9.8%) and lowest in Romania (3.6%). Past-year sexual violence and contact sexual violence prevalence was lowest in Romania (5.0 and 2.1%) and highest in Bosnia (13.6 and 7.7% respectively). Self-reported neglect was highest for both past-year and lifetime prevalence in Bosnia (48.0 and 20.3%) and lowest in Romania (22.6 and 16.7%). Experiences of positive parental practices were reported by most participating children in all countries.

conclusionsWhere significant differences in violence exposure by sex were observed, males reported higher exposure to past-year and lifetime sexual violence and females higher exposure to neglect. Children in Balkan countries experience a high burden of violence victimization and national-level programming and child protection policy making is urgently needed to address this.

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BalkansChild abuse and neglectChild maltreatmentEpidemiologyViolenceViolence against children

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