New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Research Article

Breaking the Silence: Investigating the Prevalence and Key Risk Factors of Child Maltreatment among Male Working Children in a Rural Community in Bangladesh

Table 3

Lifetime (LT) and the past year (PY) prevalence rates for each PsyA, PA, SA, and neglect-related item, .


Items of abuse	Lifetime prevalence		Past year prevalence
Items of abuse		%		%

Psychological abuse
Shouted, yelled, or screamed at	346	91.5	321	84.9
Forbidden from going out	257	68.0	218	57.7
Put in time out	258	68.3	220	56.1
Embarrassed publicly	230	60.8	184	48.7
Privileges or money taken away	198	52.4	173	45.8
Ignored	192	50.8	148	39.2
Threatened to invoke harmful people, ghosts, or evil spirits against the child	229	60.6	136	36.0
Insulted by being called dumb, lazy	180	47.6	131	34.7
Food taken away	149	39.4	88	22.4
Threatened of being abandoned	139	36.8	94	24.9
Locked out of home	114	30.2	76	20.1
Cursed	126	33.3	84	22.2
Blamed for misfortune	94	24.9	50	13.2
Wished that the child had never been born or was dead	95	25.1	43	11.4
Stopped from being with other children	53	14.0	21	5.6
Stolen from or breaking of belongings	38	10.1	20	5.3
Hurtful prejudice (gender, race, ethnicity, skin color, etc.)	27	7.1	14	3.7
Threatened with bad marks not deserved	21	5.6	7	1.9
Threatened to hurt or kill	20	5.3	4	1.1
Embarrassed the child because s/he is an orphan	2	.5	—	—

Physical abuse
Slapped in the head or face	360	95.2	228	60.3
Hit elsewhere except the buttocks with an object	291	77.0	208	55.0
Ear twisted	268	70.9	177	46.8
Stand/kneel for punishment	254	64.8	169	44.7
Shaken	112	29.6	76	20.1
Hit on the head with knuckles	121	32.0	74	19.6
Hit on the buttocks with an object	95	25.1	68	18.0
Spanked	119	31.5	53	14.0
Kicked	126	33.3	52	13.8
Hair pulled	75	19.8	51	13.5
Locked up	59	15.6	32	8.5
Given drugs or alcohol	40	10.6	24	6.3
Choked	72	19.0	17	4.5
Burned or scalded	16	4.2	12	3.2
“Beaten-up”	37	9.8	11	2.9
Pinched in	11	2.9	10	2.6
Putting pepper or spicy food in the mouth	—	—	—	—

Sexual abuse
Watched pornography	47	12.4	39	10.3
Looked at their private parts	6	1.6	3	.8
Touched private parts	5	1.3	3	.8
Forced sex	1	.3	1	.3

Neglect
Unmet medical needs	239	63.2	177	46.8
Went hungry or thirsty	141	37.3	77	20.4
Inadequate clothing	100	26.5	59	15.6
Felt unimportant	105	27.8	26	6.9
Hurt or injured due to inadequate supervision	54	14.3	19	5.0
Felt not cared for	22	5.8	8	2.1