@article{ref1,
title="Children exposed to abuse in youth-serving organizations: results from national sample surveys",
journal="JAMA pediatrics",
year="2016",
author="Shattuck, Anne and Finkelhor, David and Turner, Heather and Hamby, Sherry L.",
volume="170",
number="2",
pages="e154493-e154493",
abstract="IMPORTANCE: Protecting children in youth-serving organizations is a national concern. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To provide clinicians, policymakers, and parents with estimates of children's exposure to abuse in youth-serving organizations. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Telephone survey data from the 3 National Surveys of Children's Exposure to Violence (2008, 2011, and 2014) were combined to create a sample of 13 052 children and youths aged 0 to 17 years. The survey participants included youths aged 10 to 17 years and caregivers of children aged 0 to 9 years. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Items from the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire. <br><br>RESULTS: In the combined sample of 13 052 children and youths aged 0 to 17 years, the rate of abuse by persons in youth-serving organizations was 0.4% (95% CI, 0.2-0.7) for the past year and 0.8% (95% CI, 0.5-1.1) over the lifetime. Most of the maltreatment (63.2%) was verbal abuse and only 6.4% was any form of sexual violence or assault. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Abuse in youth-serving organizations was a relatively rare form of abuse, dwarfed by abuse by family members and other adults.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2168-6211",
doi="10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.4493",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.4493"
}