title: Ethnic/racial differences in the prevalence of injurious spanking and other child physical abuse in a National Survey of Adolescents.
abstract: Limited research has examined whether similar patterns in injurious spanking and other forms of child physical abuse (CPA) exist across specific ethnic/racial groups. The authors examined and compared differences in the lifetime prevalence of injurious spanking and CPA in two national samples of adolescents across ethnic/racial groups and over time. Participants were 4,023 youth (12-17 years) and 3,614 youth (12-17 years) who participated in the 1995 National Survey of Adolescents (NSA) and 2005 National Survey of Adolescents-Replication (NSA-R), respectively. Adolescents, who were identified through random digit dial procedures, completed a telephone interview assessment. Results indicated significant ethnic/racial variation across groups in reports of injurious spanking in the NSA and the NSA-R samples; however, significant differences were not observed within groups between the two samples over time. Ethnic/racial differences also were found between groups in reports of CPA in the NSA-R sample. Limitations and future directions of this research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine at Rockford, University of Illinois, Rockford, Illinois 61107, USA. alesiah@uic.edu
authors.forename: Alesia Oscea
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Hawkins
authors.forename: Carla Kmett
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Danielson
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: de Arellano
authors.forename: Rochelle F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Hanson
authors.forename: Kenneth J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Ruggiero
authors.forename: Daniel W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Benjamin E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Saunders
authors.forename: Dean G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Kilpatrick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006306:Health Surveys; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016015:Logistic Models; D016017:Odds Ratio; D015995:Prevalence; D011678:Punishment; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data