%0 Journal Article
%T The epidemiology of child abuse: findings from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect
%J American journal of public health
%D 1993
%A Powers, J. L.
%A Eckenrode, J.
%A Cappelleri, J. C.
%V 83
%N 11
%P 1622-1624
%X The epidemiology of child abuse was investigated with data from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. A statistical comparison of incidence rates suggested that age, family income, and ethnicity were risk factors for both sexual abuse and physical abuse, but county metrostatus was not. Gender was a risk factor for sexual abuse but not for physical abuse. A logistic regression analysis showed that ethnicity, county metrostatus, and a gender-by-income interaction distinguished sexual abuse from physical abuse.
%G 
%I American Public Health Association
%@ 0090-0036
%U http://dx.doi.org/