Samples of target and control American Indian children in the Southwest United States are compared for child abuse/neglect and family alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse is present in virtually all families that abuse/neglect children. However, alcohol abuse exists exclusive of the association with child abuse/neglect. The study demonstrates that alcohol abuse is a necessary, but not sufficient, condi...

Designed to establish a causal relationship between childhood victimization and young adults' substance abuse, this study also examined depression's role as mediator in that causal relationship. The study employs child-abuse measures that weigh both the type (sexual, physical) and the persistence of abuse. The study took as its substance-abuse measures the DSM-IV criteria for current alcohol ab...

OBJECTIVE To extend the knowledge on long-term effects of childhood abuse in psychiatric patients to a large sample, the authors explored childhood sexual and physical abuse in adult inpatients over 1,040 consecutive admissions. METHOD The 947 patients were admitted to a tertiary-care military medical center. Each patient was interviewed, and abuse history, DSM-III-R diagnosis, and other char...

objective: this study designed to achieve 3 objectives: first, to evaluate different forms of child abuse among junior high school male students in tehran, iran second, to study quality of life and general health levels of abusive parents and third, to demonstrate demographic characteristics of abusers. methods: through a multistage cluster sampling a total of 1443 students were selected from 7...

background: the present study was designed to determine the risk factors that lead to bango abuse among secondary school student and drivers in assiut province. subjects and method: urine samples were taken from 1000 volunteers after filling a questionnaire, 500 students from different secondary schools and 500 drivers in assiut province. the risk factors that lead to bango abuse among drivers ...