Multimorbidity and polyvictimization in children — An analysis on the association of children's disabilities and long-term illnesses with mental violence and physical violence

Seppälä, Piia; Vornanen, Riitta; Toikko, Timo

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105350

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“…This is especially important in children seeking mental health treatment who have preexisting mental health concerns, where their risk factors, both genetic and environmental, could be further increased. Polyvictimization, or the exposure to multiple types of trauma during the same time period, can have detrimental effects (Hughes et al, 2017; Stewart, Toohey, et al, 2020; Seppälä et al, 2021), yet we need to continue understanding the associations to various mental and physical illness in childhood and adolescence to tailor prevention and treatment efforts accordingly. Studying the associations between polyvictimization and asthma, alongside potential covariates, can further our understanding and evidence of the potential mechanisms at play and inform prevention and intervention efforts.…”

Section: Caregiver–child Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

The association between polyvictimization and asthma among children and youth in Ontario.

Stewart,

Lapshina,

Semovski

et al. 2024

Traumatology

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Section: Caregiver–child Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

The association between polyvictimization and asthma among children and youth in Ontario.

Stewart,

Lapshina,

Semovski

et al. 2024

Traumatology

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“…These burdens are attributable to higher multi-morbidity,[ 9 ] economic burden costs of medical and social care,[ 10 , 11 ] and restricted educational, occupational, and social opportunities. [ 11 ] Many visually impaired due to their disability may experience bullying, a lifetime prevalence may be as high as 41.7%,[ 12 ] maltreatment,[ 13 ] violence,[ 14 , 15 ] and sexual exploitation or abuse. [ 12 , 15 ] In addition to a few preventable ophthalmic causes, many avoidable inequalities and abuse lead to the misery of visual impairment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Prevalence of depression in visually impaired children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Bakhla¹,

Pallavi²,

Kisku³

et al. 2023

Indian J Psychiatry

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The prevalence of depression among visually impaired or blind children and adolescents has not been systematically reviewed. This study aims to provide the prevalence of depression among visually impaired or blind children and adolescents. This systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines (PRISMA) (2020) and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines. A systematic search of various online databases was done to identify and include studies reporting the prevalence of depression among visually impaired or blind children and adolescents (aged up to 20 years). A random-effects meta-analysis was used to estimate the pooled prevalence of depression. Heterogeneity was assessed using I 2 to explain heterogeneity meta-regressive analysis and subgroup analyses were done. With the finally selected 13 studies consisting of 822 participants, the overall pooled prevalence of depression or dysthymia among visually impaired children or adolescents was 14% (137/822 individuals, 95% CI = 9% to 20%), with high heterogeneity between studies (I 2 = 80.11%; P < 0.001). Five studies that expressed gender distribution showed a cumulative prevalence of diagnosed depressive disorders was 6.85% and 18.96%, respectively, for male (n = 219, I 2 = 47.52) and female (n = 116, I 2 = 60.6%) participants. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we selected and analyzed 13 studies and estimated pooled prevalence of depression was 14% (95% CI = 9% to 20%), among visually impaired or blind children and adolescents.

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“…Risk factors for experiencing polyvictimization span each sphere of the social ecological model [ 13 ]. Individual level risk factors for polyvictimization include school enrollment (although the evidence is mixed; in some settings it is protective and in others, it is a risk factor) [ 31 , 32 ] older adolescent age [ 31 ], having a disability [ 33 ], being an orphan [ 34 ], the ways and places an adolescent spends their free time (in particular, spending more time alone, in public spaces, or with a dating partner), and adolescent alcohol use, drug use, or smoking [ 13 ]. The types of violence that adolescents experience may also be gendered.…”

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Polyvictimization and Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Ethiopia: The Mediating Role of Resilience

Miller,

Butera,

Ellsberg

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Interpersonal violence is a pervasive experience affecting one billion children and adolescents annually, resulting in adverse health and well-being outcomes. Evidence suggests that polyvictimization, the experience of multiple forms of violence, is associated with more harmful consequences for adolescents than experiencing individual types of violence, although data from low-and middle-income countries are limited. This study analyzed data on over 4100 adolescents from the Gender and Adolescence, Global Evidence Study in Ethiopia to examine the association between polyvictimization and adolescent mental and physical health and the mediating role of resilience using linear regression and path analysis. We hypothesized that adolescents experiencing polyvictimization would experience worse mental and physical health than those experiencing no types or individual types of victimization, and that resilience would mediate these relationships. Half of sampled girls and over half of boys experienced polyvictimization. Among both sexes, polyvictimization was associated with worse mental but not worse physical health. Resilience mediated the association between polyvictimization and mental health among girls only. Strengthening resilience among girls may be an effective avenue for mitigating polyvictimization’s negative mental health effects, but additional research and programming for preventing and identifying polyvictimized adolescents and linking them to care is needed.

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Multimorbidity and polyvictimization in children — An analysis on the association of children's disabilities and long-term illnesses with mental violence and physical violence

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

The association between polyvictimization and asthma among children and youth in Ontario.

The association between polyvictimization and asthma among children and youth in Ontario.

Prevalence of depression in visually impaired children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Polyvictimization and Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Ethiopia: The Mediating Role of Resilience

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