title: [Meta-analysis on the incidence rates of child sexual abuse in China].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To offer basic data related to the prevention of child sexual abuse, we conducted a Meta-analysis on the national incidence rate on child sexual abuse in the country.
  
  
  METHODS
  Publications between 2000 and 2013 were extracted from PubMed, Springer Link, Elsevier-SDOL, Chinese Biomedical Database (CBM), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Science & Technology journal database (VIP), Wanfang Databases, China master's Theses Full-text Database and China Conference Papers Full-text Database. Observational studies which containing the incidence rate of child sexual abuse were included. We used the Loney criteria to evaluate the quality of searched publications. The Meta incidence rate was estimated using the Stata software. Subgroup analysis were undertaken on gender issues. Sensitivity analysis were performed to evaluate the impact of types or qualities to the research objects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifteen papers were included in this Meta-analysis, with a sample size of 16 682. The combined incidence rate of child sexual abuse was 18.20% (95%CI:13.74%-22.66%). For injured persons, girls had a higher incidence rate on child sexual abuse (11.22%) than boys (8.25%) in terms of contact sexual abuse, but no significant difference on gender was found in the prevalence rates of global and un-contact sexual abuse. Data from sensitivity analysis revealed that the quality or types of the objects slightly affected the incidence rate of traffic injuries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  of this study indicated that child sexual abuse was common and serious in China, suggesting that prevention and control programs on childhood abuse should be emphasized and promoted.
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
authors: Lin
authors: L
authors: Peng
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
authors: Si-heng
authors: SH
authors: Zhang
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Yang
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
authors: Yang
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
authors: Yun-feng
authors: YF
authors: Ye
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. Email: ntydxm@126.com.
authors: Xiao-mei
authors: XM
authors: Dong
authors: The Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
authors: Sheng-yong
authors: SY
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male