Childhood maltreatment, parenting style and anxiety in Chinese youths: A case-control study.
Child Abuse Negl
; 153: 106807, 2024 Jul.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38677178
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Although evidence in supporting the associations between childhood maltreatment (CM), parenting style and anxiety in children and adolescents exists, few high-quality analytical epidemiological studies which focusing on clinically diagnosed anxiety disorders (AD) had been published.OBJECTIVE:
The aim of this study was to further corroborate the associations between CM, parenting style, and AD in a large representative sample of Chinese children and adolescents. PARTICIPANTS ANDSETTING:
Study subjects were derived from the Mental Health Survey for Children and Adolescents in Yunnan (MHSCAY), a population-based cross-sectional program.METHODS:
Individually matched case-control study design was adopted. Univariate and multivariate conditional binary logistic regression models were used to estimate the associations between CM, parenting style and AD. Dose-response trends were estimated using the Cochran-Armitage Chi-square test. A series of stratified analyses were conducted to explore effect modification on exposure-outcome association by some important features.RESULTS:
Totally we screened out 202 cases and 404 matched controls, with an age mean of 14.43 years. Conditional logistic regression models revealed that EA and a higher level of parental over-protection were significantly associated with increased risk of AD, with adjusted ORs of 3.39 (95 % CI 2.07-5.56) and 1.93 (95 % CI 1.28-2.90). Stratified analysis identified noticeable effect modification by sex, age, and whether the only child in the family.CONCLUSIONS:
Major findings of this study suggested that children and adolescents who had experienced EA or raised up by over-protective parents are at increased risk of AD. Targeted intervention measures should be developed and implemented for these high-risk youths.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Anxiety Disorders
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Child Abuse
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Parenting
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Child Abuse Negl
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China
Country of publication:
United kingdom