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Reduction in Quality of Life Seen in Child Maltreatment Victims
Phaedra Corso, associate professor, UGA College of Public Health and her colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took into account surveys of more than 6,000 people to assess the deficits in quality of life that victims suffer.
"We found, with rigorous statistical methods, that there are significant differences in health-related quality of life between people who were maltreated as children and those who were not. And that holds across all age groups," Corso said.
Childhood maltreatment includes physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect and it has been linked to an increased risk for ailments ranging from heart disease, obesity and diabetes to depression and anxiety.
According to Corso, this may be because of two reasons. Firstly, childhood maltreatment triggers unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, substance abuse and sexual promiscuity. According to recent studies repeated exposure to the stress caused by maltreatment alters brain circuits and hormonal systems, which puts victims at greater risk of chronic health problems.
The results indicated that 46 percent of respondents reported some form of maltreatment during childhood. Of those, 26 percent reported physical abuse; 21 percent reported sexual abuse; 10 percent reported emotional abuse; 14 percent reported emotional neglect; and nine percent reported physical neglect.
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