Abstract:

Introduction and Purpose: This study was conducted in order to identify the identifying characteristics of those diagnosed with negligence and abuse from patients aged 0-18 years. Method and Requirements: It is a retrospective study. Examples of the study between 09.11.2013-09.12.2014 were 1528 children (full number) diagnosed with an emergency, neglect and/or abuse of 193.743 children between 0-18 years of age who were applying to children’s emergency, adult emergency and female birth emergency clinics in a hospital in Eskişehir. The data is obtained from the statistical program (FONET-Statistics) in the hospital information processing system. The data assessment was carried out in the SPSS 21.0 program. 51.7% of children diagnosed with abuse and/or negligence in our study are men (n=790) and 58.6% (n=896) are between 0 and 5 years of age. 75.9 percent of cases were affected by physical impairment (n: 1160), and 23.3 percent were affected by emotional impairment (n: 356). 0.13% of children were subjected to physical abuse, 0.52% were subjected to sexual abuse and 0.19% were subjected to emotional abuse. CONTRACT AND RESULT: As a result, among the reasons for applying to emergency clinics, child abuse and/or abuse holds an important place. Men and children between 0 and 5 years of age are at a higher risk.

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