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ArticleChild maltreatment2025

Prevalence of Diverse Genders and Sexualities in Australia and Associations With Five Forms of Child Maltreatment and Multi-type Maltreatment.

Daryl J Higgins, David Lawrence, Divna M Haslam, Ben Mathews, Eva Malacova, Holly E Erskine, David Finkelhor, Rosana Pacella, Franziska Meinck, Hannah J Thomas and 1 more

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Article in Child maltreatment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 9 institutions in 4 countries.

Daryl J HigginsInstitute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0268-8243
David LawrenceSchool of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4700-1425
Divna M HaslamSchool of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Ben MathewsSchool of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Eva MalacovaQIMR Berghofer, Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5050-8265
Holly E ErskineQueensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Wacol, QLD, Australia.
David FinkelhorCrimes against Children Research Center, Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7008-4252
Rosana PacellaInstitute for Lifecourse Development, University of Greenwich, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9742-1957
Franziska MeinckSchool of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Hannah J ThomasQIMR Berghofer, Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
James G ScottQIMR Berghofer, Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
The University of Queensland · AUAustralian Catholic University · AUCurtin University · AUJohns Hopkins University · USQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute · AUQueensland University of Technology · AUUniversity of Greenwich · GBUniversity of New Hampshire · USUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study presents the most comprehensive national prevalence estimates of diverse gender and sexuality identities in Australians, and the associations with five separate types of child maltreatment and their overlap (multi-type maltreatment). Using Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) data (

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Child AbuseAdolescentAdultAustraliaChildFemaleGender IdentityHumansMalePrevalenceSexual and Gender MinoritiesYoung Adultchild maltreatmentdiversegendernon-binarysexualitysexual orientation

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PMID38214251
PMCPMC11656639
OpenAlexW4390792110

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