@article{ref1,
title="Physical abuse among high school students. Prevalence and correlation with other health behaviors",
journal="Archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine",
year="1995",
author="Nelson, David E. and Higginson, G. K. and Grant-Worley, J. A.",
volume="149",
number="11",
pages="1254-1258",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To better understand the epidemiology of physical abuse among adolescents. DESIGN: School-based survey of students in grades 9 through 12. SETTING: Twenty-five schools throughout Oregon in 1993. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Prevalence of ever being physically abused, prevalence of most recent occurrence of physical abuse, and correlation of physical abuse with high-risk health behaviors. RESULTS: Of the 1957 respondents, 31.5% reported having ever been physically abused, with female subjects (34.6%) more likely than male subjects (28.0%) to have ever been abused. Overall, 3.7% of students had been physically abused in the past week, 7.8% in the past month, and 16.3% in the past year. Based on multivariate models, students physically abused in the past year were more likely than students who had never been physically abused to engage in a variety of high-risk behaviors; these included weapon carrying (odds ratio, 1.9), suicidal ideation (odds ratio, 2.1), cigarette smoking (odds ratio, 1.8), cocaine use (odds ratio, 3.2), or multiple sexual partners (odds ratio, 1.9). CONCLUSIONS: Physical abuse, an important problem among high school students, is correlated with many high-risk behaviors. Using consistent definitions, periodic surveys of children about physical abuse and other types of violent behavior are needed to provide better estimates of the extent of these problems.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1072-4710",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}