TABLE 4.
Maltreatment investigations with emotional harm among different types of maltreatment investigations: A comparison between health care professional reports and nonhealth care professional reports; The 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child abuse and Neglect (core sample)
| Maltreatment type |
Investigations from professional reports, n |
Maltreatment investigations with emotional harm, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care | Nonhealth care | Health care professional reports | Nonhealth care professional reports | |
| All maltreatment investigations | ||||
| All investigations | 1141 | 6608 | 397 (35) | 2381 (36) |
| Primary form | ||||
| Physical abuse | 294 | 1974 | 88 (30) | 562 (28) |
| Sexual abuse | 72 | 329 | 24 (33) | 98 (30) |
| Neglect | 483 | 1848 | 135 (28) | 534 (29) |
| Emotional maltreatment | 205 | 811 | 105 (51) | 410 (51) |
| Exposure to domestic violence | 87 | 1646 | 45 (52) | 777 (47) |
| Substantiated maltreatment | ||||
| All maltreatment | 531 | 3611 | 287 (54) | 1867 (52) |
| Primary form | ||||
| Physical abuse | 117 | 874 | 64 (55) | 399 (46) |
| Sexual abuse | 21 | 75 | 16 (76) | 59 (79) |
| Neglect | 218 | 910 | 90 (41) | 407 (45) |
| Emotional maltreatment | 113 | 458 | 79 (70) | 304 (66) |
| Exposure to domestic violence | 62 | 1294 | 38 (61) | 698 (54) |
There were no statistically significant differences (P<0.05) between cases reported by health care and nonhealth care professionals