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Childhood Sexual Abuse, Intellectual Disability, and Subsequent Physical and Mental Health Disorders: A Matched Cohort Study

Published:2023-02-21 Issue:2 Volume:128 Page:134-144
ISSN:1944-7558
Container-title:American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
language:en
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Author:

Daigneault Isabelle¹,Paquette Geneviève²,De La Sablonnière-Griffin Mireille³,Dion Jacinthe⁴

Affiliation:

1. Isabelle Daigneault, Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et l'agression sexuelle (CRIPCAS), Équipe violence sexuelle et santé (ÉVISSA), Canadian Consortium on Child and Youth Trauma

2. Geneviève Paquette, Université de Sherbrooke, Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et l'agression sexuelle (CRIPCAS)

3. Mireille De La Sablonnière-Griffin, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et l'agression sexuelle (CRIPCAS)

4. Jacinthe Dion, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et l'agression sexuelle (CRIPCAS), Équipe violence sexuelle et santé (ÉVISSA)

Abstract

AbstractThis study assesses whether children with intellectual disability (ID) are more at risk of sexual abuse and whether they have similar consultation rates for physical and mental health disorders than children without ID. The matched-cohort design study uses administrative databases of children who had a sexual abuse report corroborated by a child protection agency and a matched group from the general population. Children with ID were 3.5 times more likely to have a corroborated sexual abuse report when compared to their peers without ID and a higher post-abuse number of medical consultations for physical and mental health disorders. Children with ID are more at risk of sexual abuse and physical and mental health disorders and may also be more vulnerable to the effects of abuse.

Publisher

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Neurology (clinical),Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology,General Medicine,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Link

https://meridian.allenpress.com/ajidd/article-pdf/128/2/134/3191174/i1944-7558-128-2-134.pdf

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