title: [The status of child neglect among rural areas children aged 0 - 6 years in China].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the status of child neglect among rural areas children aged 0 - 6 years in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 7411 rural children aged 0 - 6 years old who were composed of two age groups (3315 children aged 0 - 2 years old and 4096 children aged 3 - 6 years old) were multistage stratified randomly sampled from 84 villages which were representative of 10 provinces of China, in accordance with sex and age in November 2010. To identify the child neglect based on the Neglect Norms for Children Aged 0 to 2 and 3 to 6 Years Old in Rural Areas of China, SPSS 13.0 was employed for analyzing neglect frequency and degree for every group of different age, sex and neglect type (including physical, emotional, educational, medical, safety and social neglects). χ(2) test and analysis of variance were also used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The degree of child neglect for the children aged 0 - 2 years old was 45.01 ± 7.56, the neglect frequency was 54.9% (1819/3315); the degree of child neglect for the children aged 3 - 6 years old was 44.42 ± 7.57, the neglect frequency was 53.8% (2203/4096). The neglect frequency of children aged 0, 1, 2 years old were 58.5% (654/1117), 52.2% (597/1144), 53.9% (568/1054) (P < 0.05). For children aged 3 - 6 years old, the degrees of emotional and safety neglect for males (44.60 ± 7.86, 36.82 ± 9.03) were higher than females (44.03 ± 7.72, 36.25 ± 9.05) (P < 0.05); and the frequencies of emotional and social neglect for males (16.8% (349/2072), 28.3% (586/2072)) were also higher than females (14.1% (286/2024), 24.8% (503/2024)) (P < 0.05). All children of two age groups suffered neglect mainly on one of the six neglect types (incidences were 20.6% (683/3315) and 22.7% (931/4096)). For 0-2 age groups, the higher neglect frequencies happened in the single-parent family and the remarried family (62.5% (15/24) and 63.2% (12/19)), but for children aged 3 - 6 years old groups, it happened in the single-parent family (60.0%, 27/45).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Degree and frequency of child neglect among children aged 0 to 6 years old in the rural areas of China are high, and we should find out risk factors and provide efficient prevention measures.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jian-ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Song-jie
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hua
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wei-qing
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authors.lastname: Wang
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authors.forename: Wei-ping
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authors.forename: Rui
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authors.lastname: Qin
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authors.forename: Shu-hua
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authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Jing
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authors.lastname: Zhang
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authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Zhao-hui
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authors.lastname: Jiao
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mesh_terms: D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012424:Rural Population; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires