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Care of child sexual abuse in a high complexity hospital
Abuso sexual infantil: tratamiento en un centro hospitalario de alta complejidad
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Romero Cabezas, D. N. ., Hoyos , L. K., Castellanos Pinzón, J. C. ., Muñoz Torres, L. D., & Fernández-Ávila, D. G. . (2025). Care of child sexual abuse in a high complexity hospital. Journal of Medicine and Surgery Repertoire, 34(2), 134-138. https://doi.org/10.31260/RepertMedCir.01217372.1485
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Diana Natalia Romero Cabezas
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Laura K. Hoyos
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Juan Carlos Castellanos Pinzón
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Introduction: child sexual abuse (CSA) is the most common type of violence against the pediatric population in Colombia. Female gender, low socioeconomic status and single-parent families are frequently associated with CSA. Objectives: to describe the sociodemographic features of pediatric patients (0 to 18 years) who experienced sexual abuse and were admitted to a university hospital in Colombia, from 2018 to 2020. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive observational study including 250 sexually abused patients. Results: average age was 10,9 years (± 4.1 years), 88 % of the study population were females, 48.2 % (n = 119) belonged to socioeconomic status two, 57.2 % (n = 143) had single-parent families, 39.2 % (n = 98) of abusers were known by their victims, in 75.2 % (n = 188) of cases, sexual abuses occurred at home and 16.6 % (n=49) were perpetrated with the victim´s consent. Conclusions: child sexual abuse must be recognized as a public health issue which requires governmental entities and health care providers´ joint work to prevent it.
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