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Child abuse according to conflict tactics scale (CTSPC), in school population of Manizales City (Colombia), 2011

Maltrato infantil según la escala de estrategias de resolución de conflictos (ctspc), en población escolarizada de la ciudad de manizales (colombia), 2011





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Perdomo, N. A., Castaño Castrillón, J. J., Castillo Ocampo, C., Garcia Serrano, A., Gongora Sabogal, H. J., Gonzalez, S. P., Mahecha Hernandez, M. E., & Morales Benitez, R. H. (2012). Child abuse according to conflict tactics scale (CTSPC), in school population of Manizales City (Colombia), 2011. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 12(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.12.1.809.2012
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Perdomo, N. A., Castaño Castrillón, J. J., Castillo Ocampo, C., Garcia Serrano, A., Gongora Sabogal, H. J., Gonzalez, S. P., Mahecha Hernandez, M. E., & Morales Benitez, R. H. (2012). Child abuse according to conflict tactics scale (CTSPC), in school population of Manizales City (Colombia), 2011. Archivos De Medicina (Manizales), 12(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.12.1.809.2012

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Nataly Apache Perdomo
José Jaime Castaño Castrillón
Carolina Castillo Ocampo
Andres Garcia Serrano
Henry Julia Gongora Sabogal
Sandra Patricia Gonzalez
Migel Eduardo Mahecha Hernandez
Rosa Helena Morales Benitez

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Background: Child abuse has actually increased in frequency and forms, considered a public health problem. Children continue to being the most risk people to be abused. Materials and methods: it was selected a sample of 449 students, from fourth to sixth grade of three publics schools of the city of Manizales (Colombia), they answered a questionnaire that included demographic variables, basic needs, history of abuse,
conflict scale. Results: The scale CTSPC showed 9.21% or 29.29 average score in all. According to this scale 33.7% is punished by hitting with a belt, 9.5% with cable, 10.9% presented
iron burns, 9% have been threatened with abandonment, or be thrown out of the home, only to 61.3% never hit them when they punish The value of conflict scale showed significant relation with gender (p=0,015), family functioning (p=0,028), liquor
consumption (p=0,013) and history of child abuse in people who take care of them (p=0,001), fight with classmates (p=0,004). 29,1% presents liquor consumption in family, 18,3% child abuse antecedent in any member of the family, 51,5% present any
kind of family dysfunction. Conclusions: A considerable proportion of the population, according to the scale
CTSPC, still suffering domestic abuse, which is unacceptable. Campaigns are necessary to eradicate outdated and primitive cultural imaginary about the education of children, and that the only thing they contribute is to perpetuate the widespread climate of violence so characteristic of Colombia.

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